Board of Directors

Dr. Gao graduated from Renmin University of China with a doctorate in Corporate Management.

Dr. Zhang Nan, joined COFCO Corporation in April 2008 as an analyst specializing in the foods sector in the strategy department, and since joining the Company in August 2010, she has served as the general manager of the strategy department, assistant to general manager and the deputy general manager of the Company, and has been in charge of strategic investment, technology innovation, fresh pork and human resources and has extensive experience in these areas. Dr. Zhang currently also serves as a director of COFCO Meat Investments Co., Ltd. (中糧肉食投資有限公司).

Dr. Zhang graduated from Tsinghua University (清華大學) with her bachelor’s degree in engineering and doctoral degree in management.

Mr. CHEN Zhigang  (陈志刚), was designated as a non-executive Director on June 25, 2024. Mr. Chen is primarily responsible for assisting the Chairman and managing director in formulating the corporate and business strategies and making major corporate and operational decisions of the Company.

Mr. Chen Zhigang currently also serves as a director of COFCO Meat Investments Co., Ltd. Mr. Chen joined COFCO Corporation (“COFCO”) in 2008 and has held various positions ever since, including a director of COFCO Sugar Holding Co., Ltd. (a company listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, stock code: 600737), a director of China Foods Limited (a company listed on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited, stock code: 506), a director of COFCO Technology & Industry Co., Ltd. (a company listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, stock code: 301058), a director of Shenzhen Qianhai COFCO Development Co., Ltd. (深圳前海中糧發展有限公司), audit commissioner of COFCO Trading Ltd. (中糧貿易有限公司), director of the Quality and Safety Management Department, director of the Production Safety Department and deputy director of the Audit and Legal Risk Control Department of COFCO. Prior to joining COFCO, Mr. Chen served as the deputy director of the Technical Equipment Department of the National Work Safety Emergency Rescue Center (國家安全生產應急救援中心), director of the First Division of the Work Safety Coordination Department of the State Administration of Work Safety (國家安全生產監督管理總局), and assistant to the director of the Science and Technology Research Center and director of the Technology Development Department of the State Administration of Work Safety, deputy director of the Consultation Department of the Safety Science and Technology Research Center of the State Economic and Trade Commission, etc.
Mr. Chen graduated from Anhui Normal University, majoring in chemistry and later graduated from Beijing Institute of Technology, majoring in energetic materials, and obtained a master’s degree in engineering. Mr. Chen has extensive experience in quality and safety management.

Dr. Ju Jiandong (鞠建東), was appointed as an independent non-executive Director on November 21, 2018. He is a Unigroup Chair Professor at the PBC School of Finance, Tsinghua University, the director of the Center for International Finance and Economics Research of the PBC School of Finance and a distinguished professor under the Yangtze River Scholars Programme of the Ministry of Education of China. He was the dean and a professor at School of International Business Administration of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics from 2014 to 2017, a professor at School of Economics and Management and the director at the Center for International Economic Research in Tsinghua University from 2009 to 2015; an assistant professor, an associate professor (Tenure Track) and a professor at the Department of Economics of University of Oklahoma in the U.S.A. from 1995 to 2014, and a resident scholar in the International Monetary Fund and a consultant for World Bank from 2007 to 2009. Dr. Ju focuses his research on international trade, international finance and industrial organization. He has published various papers in American Economic Review, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Monetary Economics, American Economic Journal and other international leading academic journals, and won the “Pushan Award for Excellent Paper on International Economics” in 2016.

Dr. Ju obtained a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Nanjing University in July 1982, a master’s degree in economics from Tsinghua University in July 1987, and a doctorate in economics from Pennsylvania State University in May 1995.