Mr. Hu has served as Board Secretary of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited since December 2010. Mr. Hu joined ICBC in 1984, serving successively as Deputy General Manager of the Industrial and Commercial Credit Department, Deputy General Manager of the Credit Management Department, General Manager of the Institutional Banking Department, General Manager of the International Banking Department. He previously served as President of Chinese Mercantile Bank, Chairman of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Luxembourg S.A., Deputy Director-General of Construction and Administration Bureau of South-to-North Water Diversion Middle Route Project, a Director of Taiping General Insurance Company Limited and Taiping Life Insurance Co., Ltd. and a Director of Xiamen International Bank. Currently, Mr. Hu is also General Manager of Corporate Strategy and Investor Relations Department of ICBC. Mr. Hu graduated from Hunan University, and received a Doctorate degree in Economics from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He is a senior economist.