Professional Qualifications

• Mr. Sun has over 30 years of experience in business management. Mr. Sun has been the chairman of Hong Kong Aerospace Technology Group Limited (''HKATG'') since 2019. From 2015 to 2019, he was the chairman of Hong Kong Financial Assets Management Limited. From 1993 to 2013, he was the chairman of Far East International Capital Management Ltd. From 1990 to 1993, he was the deputy manager of Jincheng Asset Management Ltd.

Professional Qualifications

• Dr. Lam is chairman of Hong Kong Cyberport. He is also a member of the Committee on Innovation, Technology and Re-Industrialization, the Governance Committee of the Hong Kong Growth Portfolio, and the Development Bureau Common Spatial Data Advisory Committee of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, convenor of the Panel of Advisors on Building Management Disputes of the HKSAR Government Home Affairs Department, a member of the Court of the City University of Hong Kong and the Tencent Finance Academy (Hong Kong) Advisory Board, chairman of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP) Sustainable Business Network (ESBN) and its Task Force on Banking and Finance, vice chairman of Pacific Basin Economic Council (PBEC), and a member of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council Belt and Road and Greater Bay Area Committee and the Sir Murray MacLehose Trust Fund Investment Advisory Committee.
  
  Dr. Lam holds a Bachelor of Science in Sciences and Mathematics, a Master of Science in Systems Science and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Ottawa in Canada, a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) from Manchester Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom (the “UK”), a Master of Laws from the University of Wolverhampton in the UK, a Master of Public Administration and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from the University of Hong Kong. He is also a solicitor of the High Court of Hong Kong (and formerly a member of the Hong Kong Bar), an accredited mediator of the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution, a fellow of Certified Management Accountants (CMA) Australia, the Institute of Public Accountants, the Institute of Financial Accountants, the Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators, and the Hong Kong Institute of Directors, and an honorary fellow of Certified Public Accountants (CPA) Australia, the Hong Kong Institute of Facility Management, and the University of Hong Kong School of Professional and Continuing Education. In 2019, Dr. Lam was awarded by the Hong Kong Government a Bronze Bauhinia Star for serving the public.

Professional Qualifications

• Ms. Ku was an administrative officer in the HKSAR government. Ms. Ku was the former Deputy Secretary for Financial Services & the Treasury and contributed to formulation of monetary and financial policies. During her service in the HKSAR government, Ms. Ku had also taken up other senior positions dealing with trade and industrial development, energy, housing, and district administration. In 2001, Ms. Ku was selected and served as the global President of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) on Anti-money Laundering. After September 11 Events in 2001, she steered and led the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, FATF-Style Regional Bodies and FATF member countries to formulate policies on counter terrorist financing. In 2007, Ms. Ku served as the Founding CEO of the China-United States Exchange Foundation and remains a Counsellor of the Foundation since after stepping down from CEO. Ms. Ku has taken various leadership roles in the finance and business sectors over the past 15 years.
  
  The Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region awarded Ms. Ku the Chief Executive’s Commendation for Public Service. Ms. Ku was an official Justice of Peace. Ms. Ku was a board member of the Singapore National Council Against Drug Abuse and received a special award from the Singapore Minister for Home Affairs in 2003.
  
  Ms. Ku is also active in community services, including her role as Chairman of the Alliance of Professionals against Drug Abuse, Co-chair of Belt and Road Cultural Exchange Foundation for Women, Vice President and President Elect of the International Women Forum, Hong Kong Chapter.
  
  Ms. Ku holds a Master of Laws with Merit from University of London, UK, a Master of Science in Management from Stanford University, USA, and a Postgraduate Diploma in English and Hong Kong Law. She is a fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Directors.

Professional Qualifications

• H.H. Shaikh Mohammed Maktoum Juma Al-Maktoum is a member of the Dubai’s royal family. H.H. Al-Maktoum holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Dubai and has exposure spanning across multiple sectors including technology, aviation, sports consultancy, healthcare, education, oil & gas services, real estate, logistics, agriculture, and fashion. H.H. Al-Maktoum is currently the chairman of the UAE Rugby Federation.

Professional Qualifications

• Dr. Fabio Favata is an astrophysicist who has worked from 1998 until 2023 with the European Space Agency ("ESA"), where he has held different positions and responsibilities. He first worked as an active scientist at ESA’s technical center in the Netherlands. From 2008, he became responsible for the strategy, coordination and planning of the Scientific Programme of ESA at the ESA’s Headquarters in Paris, France. In this role, he defined the strategy of ESA’s Scientific Programme, and managed the interaction with all the stakeholders.
  
  Dr. Favata obtained his degree in physics from the University of Palermo, Italy, in 1985. During the course of his research career, he published over 150 refereed papers, of which 37 as first author, covering a range of topics, including stellar activity, stellar formation, galactic structure, and artificial intelligence. His scientific production has received more than 6,500 citations in scientific literatures.
  
  He has held and holds a number of science policy roles, including membership of the scientific committee of the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics, and a senior advisor role for the International Space Science Institute in Beijing, China. He is associated with the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics, and continues to pursue research in astronomy and in science policy.

Professional Qualifications

• Mr. Ma is the Executive Director of our Company and has over 17 years of experience in electronics engineering. He attended Xi’an University of Technology from September 1994 to July 1997 and obtained a Junior College Education Degree in Mechatronic Engineering in July 1997. From March 2001 to May 2011, Mr. Ma served as the general manager, legal representative and chairman of the board of directors of Shenzhen Active Tactics Electronics Company Limited.

Professional Qualifications

• Mr. Alhamedi Mnahi F Alanezi is a general secretariat of League of Arab States, a president and chief executive officer of Arab Satellite Communications Organization (ARABSAT) and a board member of Global Satellite Operator’s Association
  (GSOA), Sudatel Telecom Group, Ltd and SAMENA Telecommunications Council. Mr. Alanezi holds a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering in 1990 and a master’s degree in executive management MBA in 2012, both from King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals.
  
  Mr. Alanezi has over 27 years of experience in Saudi Arabia, Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region and the Middle East and North Africa in structuring, and leading business in multiple sectors such as investment, banking, financial service, and information technology. He has been the system development manager in National Commercial Bank from 1996 to 2001 and then moved to Al Rajhi Bank to work as e-commerce business head from 2001 to 2004. Mr. Alanezi has then worked in MasterCard as vice president & country manager in Saudi Arabia for 6 years and became a board member in Connecal from 2011 to 2014. He later joined First Recycling Co. Exitcom Middle East as chief executive officer from 2012 to
  2017, Network International as general manager of Saudi Arabia from 2019 to 2021 and CREALOGIX as managing director of Middle East region from 2021 to 2023.

Professional Qualifications

• Professor Christian Feichtinger graduated from the Graz University of Technology and earned a Ph.D. in Space Experimentation. From September 2021 onwards, Prof. Feichtinger has been a member of the Group’s aerospace technology development steering committee. In 2020, Prof. Feichtinger was awarded the "Executive Director of the Year 2020" by the Association of Association Executives. He became Head of the ESA Permanent Mission in the Russian Federation in 2007, and from 2009 to 2011, he was ESA’s senior advisor on exploration. Since 2012, he is the executive director of the International Astronautical Federation (IAF), a globally active federation, which was founded in 1951 to foster dialogue between scientists around the world and support international cooperation in all space-related activities and continues to connect space people worldwide.
  
  During the early 1990s and within the Institute of Applied Systems Technology of Joanneum Research, Graz, Prof. Feichtinger became technical manager of the first Austro-Soviet manned space mission to MIR "AUSTROMIR" and the follow-on missions "AUSTROMIR-E" and "AUSTROMIR MEDF". In 1993, he became an integrated member of the ESA’s EUROMIR-94 and EUROMIR-95 Mission Management Team at European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), The Netherlands, and eventually becoming resident in Moscow as the EUROMIR-95 flight operations manager at the Russian Mission Control Centre. He joined the ESA in 1997 as its human spaceflight, microgravity and exploration programme representative in Moscow.

Professional Qualifications

• Professor Guo Huadong is the director general of the International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals (CBAS), and a professor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ("CAS") Aerospace Information Research Institute. He is an academician of CAS, a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a foreign member of the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, a fellow of the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), and a fellow of the International Science Council. He presently serves as honorary president of the International Society for Digital Earth ("ISDE"), director of the International Center on Space Technologies for Natural and Cultural Heritage under the Auspices of UNESCO, member of the International Science Council ("ISC") Global Commission on Science Missions for Sustainability, chair of Digital Belt and Road Program (DBAR), editor-in-chief of two scientific journals International Journal of Digital Earth and Big Earth Data, and a member of the Group’s satellite application expert committee, a position that he has held since 1 September 2021. He served as member of the United Nations 10-Member Group to support the Technology Facilitation Mechanism for Sustainable Development Goals (2018–2021), chairman of the International Committee of Remote Sensing of Environment (2017–2020), president of ISDE (2015–2019) and ISC Committee on Data for Science and Technology (2010–2014). Prof. Guo specializes in remote sensing, radar for earth observation, and digital earth science. He has published more than 500 papers and 24 books, and is the awardee of 20 international and domestic prizes.

Professional Qualifications

• Dr. Othman, obtained a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from the University of Otago, New Zealand in 1981, and became a lecturer at the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) in 1981. Dr. Othman was seconded to the Prime Minister's Department in 1990 to set up and head the Planetarium Division, which subsequently became the Space Science Studies Division in 1993. She was appointed by Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia as Professor of Astrophysics in 1994. She was appointed as a Director of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) in Vienna, Austria in 1999. Dr. Othman returned to Malaysia to become the founding Director General of the National Space Agency (ANGKASA) in July 2002. In this capacity she established the National Observatory in Langkawi and National Space Centre in Selangor. She headed the National Angkasawan (Astronaut) Programme which saw the launch of the first Malaysian to the International Space Station in 2007. She was responsible for the launch of Malaysia Remote Sensing Satellites: TiungSAT and RazakSAT. She attended the Advanced Management Programme (AMP169) at Harvard Business School in 2005.
  Dr. Othman resumed her post as Director of UNOOSA in December 2007 upon retirement from Malaysian Civil Service. She was appointed as the Deputy Director-General of the United Nations Office at Vienna (UNOV) in June 2009 and she retired from the United Nations in December 2013. Dr. Othman was appointed as the Project Director, Mega Science 3.0 at Academy of Sciences Malaysia (ASM) from 2014 to 2016. She became the Professor Emeritus at UKM in 2015 and was a Fulbright Scholar at the Space Policy Institute of George Washington University from 2015 to 2016. Dr. Othman was elected as Senior Fellow of ASM in 2016. She was the Director of the International Science Council (ISC) Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP) from 2017 to 2021.

Professional Qualifications

• Mr. Niu, respectively received his master's degree in 1991 in Aeronautical and Aerospace System Engineering and bachelor's degree in 1988 in Aerospace Mechanical Engineering with specialization of Airplane and Engine. He was also an alumnus in Space Business and Management from International Space University in 2005.
  Mr. Niu has been undertaking international cooperation in space technology and its applications as well as space exploration since 1998. From 2021 to 2022, he assumed leadership roles at the BeiDou International Cooperation Center to promote applications of BeiDou/Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) in various industries all over the world.
  Mr. Niu served the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) as Senior Expert from 2011 to 2014 and Scientific Affairs Officer (P4) from 2017 to 2020 respectively, where he helped launch the United Nations Human Space Technology Initiative and the Access to Space for All Initiative, opened China Space Station to the world, implemented various scientific and technical projects, and organized United Nations workshops and expert meetings, in cooperation with different partners and all United Nations Member States.
  During his career at China Manned Space Agency from 1997, Mr. Niu assumed important roles in promoting international cooperation in human space flight and space exploration with rest of the world, software product quality assurance, procurement, planning and budgeting, satellite overall design, radio frequency and orbital resources applications and coordination. He has been a FRINCE2 practitioner in project management.

Professional Qualifications

Professional Qualifications

• Ms. Barbara Jane Ryan holds master’s degrees in geography from the University of Denver and in civil engineering from Stanford University respectively and has been awarded an honorary doctor of science degree from her alma mater, the State University of New York at Cortland. Since January of 2021, she has become the second executive director of the World Geospatial Industry Council (WGIC), a non-profit trade association of private-sector companies working in the geospatial and earth observation ecosystem, a position she still holds today. She serves on several boards and advisory committees including for two start-ups Azimuth1 and Data for Development Insights (D4DInsights), the Ecological Sequestration Trust, the International Centre for Earth Simulation (ICES), the International Symposium for Remote Sensing of Environment (ISRSE), and from 2018–2021, the Jane Goodall Institute.
  
  Ms. Ryan has served as chair of the International Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS). She has been named an honorary fellow of the American Geographical Society, in 2017 she was one of 10 global leaders to be named to the Geospatial World Forum’s Hall of Fame, and in 2019 she was awarded the United States Department of Interior and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)’s Pecora Award. Ms. Ryan began her career in the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the largest natural resource science and civilian mapping agency in the United States. From 2008 to 2012, she was director of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) space programme, and from 2012 to 2018, Ms. Ryan was the secretariat director of the intergovernmental group on Earth Observations (GEO) in Geneva, Switzerland.

Professional Qualifications

• Mr. David Gordon Eldon GBS CBE JP commenced his career in banking in London in 1964. He subsequently took up various position within the HSBC Group in different countries including Saudi Arabia, Oman and Bahrain, Malaysia and Hong Kong. Mr. Eldon was made an executive director of HSBC in January 1994, chief executive officer in 1996 and chairman in 1999. In 1996, Mr. Eldon was made chairman of Hang Seng Bank Ltd., a member of the HSBC Group and was appointed as a director of HSBC Holdings plc in 1999. He retired from the HSBC Group in 2005. Later in the same year, he served as chairman of the Dubai International Financial Center Authority until June 2011. Mr. Eldon returned to banking in 2011 to become non-executive chairman of HSBC Bank Middle East Limited, and between 2013–2017 was chairman of HSBC Bank Oman. In 2017 he
  added the roles of non-executive chairman for HSBC Bank Egypt, HSBC Bank Turkey, and HSBC Middle East Holdings. He stepped down from all those roles during 2021. In 2021 he was appointed to the role of deputy chairman of HSBC
  Asia Pacific, and sits on several board committees. He is advisor to the chief executive officer of HSBC’s Global Commercial Bank.
  
  Mr. Eldon was senior adviser at PricewaterhouseCoopers from 2005 to 2014, an adviser to Singapore-based Southern Capital Group a private equity firm, and to Hong Kong-based but international property group RIBCA Holdings. Between 2016 and 2019 he was an adviser to Thailand’s CP Group on their corporate governance committee, and from 2016 to 2022, was chairman of Octopus Holdings Limited and Octopus Cards Ltd in Hong Kong. In 2023, he was appointed as an
  adviser to the Hong Kong Middle East Business Chamber and the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region ("HKSAR Government")’s Hong Kong Academy for Wealth Legacy. Mr. Eldon is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers (FCIB). He was conferred honorary doctor of business administration by the City University of Hong Kong in 2003. He was awarded the Gold Bauhinia Star (GBS) by the HKSAR Government. In 2005 he was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) for his contribution to banking and awarded honorary citizenship of Seoul in recognition of his work for the city. In 2011 Mr. Eldon was conferred honorary doctor of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. Mr. Eldon is a Justice of the Peace (JP).

Professional Qualifications

• Mr. Hung obtained a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom in 1980. Mr. Hung had served Deloitte China for 31 years where he had assumed various leadership roles before serving as chairman of Deloitte China from 2014 to 2016. He retired from Deloitte China with effect from June 2016. While working with Deloitte China, Mr. Hung assumed various leadership roles, including the managing partner of Deloitte Shenzhen office and Guangzhou office. He was also a member of the China management team of Deloitte China. Mr. Hung was head of audit of South China and deputy managing partner of South China (including Hong Kong, Macau, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Xiamen and Changsha). He was also a board member of Deloitte Global.
  
  Mr. Hung served as the Guangzhou Institute of Certified Public Accountants consultant from 2004 to 2014. He also served as a member of the Political Consultative Committee of Luohu District, Shenzhen, China from 2006 to 2011. After his retirement as the chairman of Deloitte China, he was appointed as an expert consultant of The Ministry of Finance in the People’s Republic of China. Mr. Hung is a life member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Professional Qualifications

• Mr. de Dalmau, aged 64, obtained a master's degree in mechanical and industrial engineering from the Technical University of Catalonia (translation of Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. He also completed courses of business administration in the USA and multidisciplinary space studies in France respectively between 1981 and 1989.
  
  Mr. de Dalmau has been a faculty member of the International Space University (''ISU'') since 1993, during which he held the positions of director at space studies program from July 2002 to August 2005 and president of ISU from September 2018 to August 2021. In addition, Mr. de Dalmau held various senior management positions, including head of communications office at European Space Agency in Netherlands from October 2010 to July 2018; general manager at Community of Ariane Cities in France form October 2005 to May 2011; director of Aerospace Research and Technology Centre in Spain from October 2005 to September 2010; and director of operations of Guiana Space Centre of the French Space Agency in French Guiana from 1988 to 1992. Mr. de Dalmau has over 35 years of experience in research, education, outreach, operations and facilities management in international environments.
   

Professional Qualifications

• Mr. Marwan Jassim Sulaiman Jassim Alsarkal obtained a higher diploma in advanced accounting and a bachelor’s degree in applied science from Higher Colleges of Technology in Dubai in 1999 and 2011 respectively. He served as executive chairman in Sharijah Investment & Development Authority (Shurooq) from 2009 to 2022. Mr. Alsarkal also held the position of chief executive officer at Al Qasba Development Authority from 2006 to 2009 and worked as the head of auditing at Sharjah Electricity and Water Authority from 1999 to 2003. From 2003 to 2006, he served as the finance director for Dubai Shopping Festival.

Professional Qualifications

• Professor Wang Jianyu is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and researcher professor of the Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics (‘‘SITP’’), CAS. He obtained his bachelor of science in physics from Hangzhou University, Hangzhou, China in 1982, his master of engineering in photoelectric technique and doctor of philosophy in photoelectric Technique from SITP in 1987 and 1990 respectively. Prof. Wang is the associate editor of ‘‘Journal of Infrared and Millimetre Wave’’ and ‘‘Journal of Applied Science’’ and serves as a member of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) Chinese Committee and chairman of SPIE Asia Pacific Conference on multispectral/hyperspectral remote sensing technology and application. Prof. Wang was appointed as the deputy director of SITP from 1997 to 2020, director of SITP from 2000 to 2008, vice president of CAS from 2008 to 2017 and president of CAS from 2017 to 2020. He was also held various positions at SITP, he was appointed as assistant professor from 1990 to 1993, associate professor from 1993 to 1995 and professor from 1995 onwards.