Irene Yun-Lien Lee has been a director of Alibaba since August 2022. She is the executive chairman of Hysan Development Limited and a trustee of the Better Hong Kong Foundation, and has served on the boards of numerous listed and unlisted companies across Hong Kong, Singapore, the UK and Australia. Her prior roles include independent non-executive chairman of Hang Seng Bank, independent non-executive director of HSBC Holdings, and directorships at CLP Holdings and Cathay Pacific Airways; she also had a long career in financial services with senior positions at Citibank in New York, London and Sydney and as global head of corporate finance at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. Ms. Lee holds a Bachelor of Arts from Smith College, is a Barrister-at-Law in England and Wales, and received an honorary Doctor of Social Science from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in November 2022.