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PRINCIPAL BOARD MEMBER

Name Of Organisation: The Procter & Gamble Company
Membership Number: 401131000000
Name Of Nominee: Kuan-Chun Lee
Position In The Organisation: Principal Scientist


Summary of Nominee Profile
Kuan-Chun Lee is a Principal Scientist in the Corporate Sustainability organization at Procter & Gamble based in Singapore. Kuan-Chun leads the technical sustainability strategy, priority and efforts on P&G’s 3-pillar palm sustainability program on Supply Chain Fundamentals and Management, Compliance Monitoring, and Partnership & Force for Good – playing a critical leadership role across all three pillars. He was awarded the 2020 Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) Global Partners Capacity-Building Award for contribution on advancement and education in sustainable environmental sciences, quality and policy-making.

Kuan-Chun joined the RSPO Smallholder WG in 2014. Since then, he served in the 2018 RSPO P&C Review Task Force, the Smallholder Interim Group for RSPO Independent Smallholder Standard (RISS), Jurisdictional Approach WG, No Deforestation Task Force, No Deforestation Joint Steering Group, Assurance Standing Committee, and is member of the 2023 P&C Review Steering Group. He co-chairs the RSPO Smallholder Standing Committee and has been serving in the Board of Governors from November 2018.

Kuan-Chun received Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from Northwestern University, U.S.A. He joined P&G at the Kobe Technical Center in Japan in 1999, before moved to Singapore in 2011. His responsibilities covered environmental risk assessment, sustainable innovation strategy and life cycle assessment (LCA) to improve environmental footprints on renewable materials, solid waste, and products, and led the P&G / WWF Water Stewardship Program in China.  Professionally, he served as the President of the Society of Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry (SETAC) Asia-Pacific Geographic Unit in 2016-2018, and is currently member of the Industrial Advisory Board of the Nanyang Environment & Water Research Institute in Singapore.


Summary of Organisation Profile
P&G serves consumers around the world with one of the strongest portfolios of trusted, quality, leadership brands, including Always®, Ambi Pur®, Ariel®, Bounty®, Charmin®, Crest®, Dawn®, Downy®, Fairy®, Febreze®, Gain®, Gillette®, Head & Shoulders®, Lenor®, Olay®, Oral-B®, Pampers®, Pantene®, SK-II®, Tide®, Vicks®, and Whisper®. The P&G community includes operations in approximately 70 countries worldwide. Please visit www.pg.com for the latest news and information about P&G and its brands.

ALTERNATE BOARD MEMBER

Name Of Organisation: Ferrero Trading Lux S.A.
Membership Number: 400060500000
Name Of Nominee: Mario Abreu
Position In The Organisation: Head CSR & Sustainability


Summary of Nominee Profile
Mario has been Ferrero Head of Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability (CSO) since April 2020, belonging to the Executive Chairman’s Staff. Prior to Ferrero Mario worked for over 20 years in sustainability for Tetra Pak located first in Canada and then Europe, the last 5 of them as their Global VP Sustainability. In addition, he has served on several boards (Forest Stewardship Council, High Conservation Value Resource Network, Aluminium Stewardship Initiative, Proforest Initiative, and ACE Beverage Cartons) and technical advisory groups (The Carbon Trust and SBTi). Mario is a mechanical engineer, having done sustainability and business training at CISL (UK) , IMD Lausanne, Ashridge (UK), FGV (Brazil) and the Open University (UK). Please feel free to liaise directly with him for next steps.

Summary of Organisation Profile
Ferrero has been built by generations of people who share a commitment to continuous improvement. Our core values provide the foundation for our purpose and are a guiding force for our people and suppliers as our Company continues to grow. Today we are among the world's largest players in the sweet packaged food sector, present in over 50 countries and with a workforce above 38000. Among our most well-known brands are Nutella, Kinder, TicTac, and Ferrero Rocher.