Lan Yan — Managing Director and Head of Greater China Investment Banking at Lazard

Ms. Lan Yan has been the Head of Greater China Investment Banking and Managing Director of Lazard Ltd. since April 2011. Ms. Yan has been the Chief Representative in the Beijing office of Gide Loyrette et Nouel since 1998. She serves as an arbitrator for the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC) and for the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) China Commission. She served as Head of The Office of Board of Directors, Head of The Office of Board of Supervisors and Joint Company Secretary at China Merchants Bank Co., Ltd. She was a Research Associate at Harvard Law School. She joined Gide Loyrette et Nouel in 1991. She became the first female foreign partner of Gide Loyrette et Nouel in 1997. Ms. Yan serves as the Chairman of the International Advisory Committee of Beijing Music Festival, the Chairman of China Heritage Protection Fund (CHS), Vice Chairlady of the Women's Forum for the Economy and Society in Asia, and an advisor to France on foreign trade. She served as an Independent Non-Executive Director of China Merchants Bank Co., Ltd., since joining in June 2007. She served as a Director of Anhui Tianda Oil Pipe Co. Ltd. from June 2011 to March 30, 2012. Ms. Yan was admitted by Paris Bar Association in 1994. She obtained a bachelor degree in French Language and Literature from Beijing Foreign Languages Institute in 1981, a master's degree in International Law from Peking University in 1984 and a doctorate degree in International Law from Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva in 1993.