Sin Leng LOW
Independent Director – Member of the Audit and Account Committee
Nationality: Singaporean
Born on June 9, 1952
Date of first appointment: May 2014
Start of current term: May 2018
End of current term: 2022
(General Meeting to approve the financial statements for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2021)
Number of shares owned as of December 31, 2019: 1,521
Career
Sin Leng Low is a graduate of the University of Alberta (Canada) in Electrical engineering, has a Master of Business Administration from the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) and completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School (USA). After spending part of her career in the Singapore government administrative service, Sin Leng Low held the duties of Executive Vice President at electricity provider Singapore Power and Managing Director of its telecommunications subsidiary from 1995 to 2000. In 2000, she joined energy, water, marine and urban development group Sembcorp Industries, where she successively held the positions of Group Chief Operating Officer and Executive Chairman of the subsidiary spearheading the industrialization and urbanization development business in China, Vietnam and Indonesia until end 2012, and Senior Advisor for four years.
Positions and activities held during 2019
Functions within the Air Liquide Group
- Director: L’ Air Liquide S.A.* (member of the Audit and
Accounts Committee since May 2015)
Positions or activities outside the Air Liquide Group
- Member of the Board of Trustees: Singapore University of Technology & Design (SUTD)
- Chairman and Director: Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA)
- Chairman: Nanyang Fine Arts Foundation Limited, NAFA International Pte Ltd.
- Executive Board member: China Cultural Center
Annette WINKLER
Independent Director – Member of the Remuneration Committee – Member of the Appointments and Governance Committee
Nationality: German
Born on September 27, 1959
Date of first appointment: May 2014
Start of current term: May 2018
End of current term: 2022(a)
(General Meeting to approve the financial statements for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2021)
Number of shares owned as of December 31, 2019: 1,859
Career
Doctor in Economics from the University of Frankfurt (Germany), Annette Winkler became the Managing Shareholder of a mediumsized construction company. In 1995, she joined the Mercedes-Benz group, where she held a variety of positions and in particular that of Senior Director / Head Public Relations and Communications. After spending two years as Head of the Mercedes-Benz sales and service outlet in Braunschweig, she became Chief Executive Officer of DaimlerChrysler Belgium and Luxembourg (1999-2005), then Vice President of Global Business Management & Wholesale Europe (2006-2010). Vice President of Daimler AG, since 2010 she was Chief Executive Officer of smart (with overall responsibility for the brand, also in charge of the smart factory in Lorraine), until 2018.
Positions and activities held during 2019
Functions within the Air Liquide Group
- Director: L’Air Liquide S.A.* (member of the Remuneration Committee since May 2015; member of the Nomination and Governance Committee since May 2017)
Positions or activities outside the Air Liquide Group
- Member of the Supervisory Board: Mercedes-Benz South Africa (until June 2019)
- Director: Renault S.A.* (Member of the Strategy Committee) (since June 2019); Renault S.A.S. (since June 2019)
- Member of the Counsel for Foreign Economic Affairs of the German Ministry for Economics(a)
(a) Renewal of term not requested.