ESR AR 2019 EN

101 DIRECTORS’ REPORT ESR Annual Report 2019 DIRECTORS Directors of the Company during the year ended 31 December 2019 and up to the date of this report are as follows: Executive Directors Date of Appointment Mr Jinchu SHEN (Co-CEO) 30 June 2011 Mr Stuart GIBSON (Co-CEO) 20 January 2016 Mr Charles Alexander PORTES (President) 20 January 2016 Non-executive Directors Mr Jeffrey David PERLMAN (Chairman of the Board) 14 June 2011 Mr Joseph Raymond GAGNON 30 June 2011 Mr Zhenhui WANG 10 May 2018 Mr Ho Jeong LEE 3 August 2017 Independent Non-executive Directors Mr Brett Harold KRAUSE 20 May 2019 (effective on 22 October 2019) The Right Honourable Sir Hugo George William SWIRE, KCMG 20 May 2019 (effective on 22 October 2019) Mr Simon James MCDONALD 20 May 2019 (effective on 22 October 2019) Ms Jingsheng LIU 20 May 2019 (effective on 22 October 2019) Mr Robin Tom HOLDSWORTH 14 October 2019 (effective on 22 October 2019) After the end of the reporting year, and up to the date of this report, there was no change of Directors of the Company. Biographical details of the Directors and senior management of the Company are set out in the sections headed “Board of Directors” and “Group Senior Management” respectively on pages 22 to 28 of this annual report. In accordance with article 108(a) of the Articles of Association of the Company, at each annual general meeting one-third of the Directors for the time being, or, if their number is not three or a multiple of three, then the number nearest to but not less than one-third, shall retire from office by rotation provided that every Director (including those appointed for a specific term) shall be subject to retirement by rotation at least once every three years. A retiring Director shall be eligible for re-election. The Company at the general meeting at which a Director retires may fill the vacated office. Article 108(b) of the Articles of Association of the Company also provides that the Directors to retire by rotation shall include (so far as necessary to obtain the number required) any Director who wishes to retire and not to offer himself for re-election. Any Director who has not been subject to retirement by rotation in the three years preceding the annual general meeting shall retire by rotation at such annual general meeting. Any further Directors so to retire shall be those who have been longest in office since their last re-election or appointment and so that as between persons who became or were last re-elected Directors on the same day those to retire shall (unless they otherwise agree among themselves) be determined by lot. Accordingly, at the forthcoming annual general meeting to be held on 3 June 2020, Mr Jinchu Shen, Mr Jeffrey David Perlman, Mr Joseph Raymond Gagnon and Mr Stuart Gibson, who are being the longest in office since their appointment, shall retire from office and have offered themselves for re-election at the annual general meeting.