LAM Kin Hung, Patrick, is an independent non-executive Director. He joined the Group on 19 August 2009 when he was appointed as an independent non-executive Director. Mr. Lam is the Chairman of the Nomination Committee and a member of the Audit Committee of the Board. Mr. Lam graduated from the University of London with an honoured Bachelor of Laws degree in 1988, from the University of Hong Kong with the Postgraduate Certificate in Laws in 1989, from the University of London with a Master of Laws degree in 1991 and from the City Polytechnic of Hong Kong (now known as the City University of Hong Kong) with a Postgraduate Diploma in Language and Law in 1991. He was admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong and the Supreme Court of England and Wales in 1991, and was subsequently admitted as an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in 1993, and as a practitioner of the Supreme Court of Tasmania, Australia in 1994. He has been appointed as a China Appointed Attesting Officer since 2003. From 1996 to 2000, Mr. Lam had taken up part-time teaching positions in various tertiary institutions in China and Hong Kong, including the 西江大學 (University of Xijiang), the Open University of Hong Kong, Vocational Training Council and Sun Life of Canada (International) Limited, on subjects of law and building management. Mr. Lam is a practising solicitor and is currently a consultant in Yip, Tse & Tang, a solicitor's firm in Hong Kong.