Hong Kong Aerospace Technology Group Limited announce that with effect from 5 October 2022, Dr. Mazlan Binti Othman has been re-designated from an independent non-executive Director to a non-executive Director. Apart from being re-designated as a non-executive Director, Dr. Othman shall remain as the chairman of the international cooperation committee of the Company. Dr. Othman, aged 70, was appointed as an independent non-executive Director on 5 July 2022.

She obtained a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from the University of Otago, New Zealand in 1981, and became a lecturer at the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) in 1981. Dr. Othman was seconded to the Prime Minister's Department in 1990 to set up and head the Planetarium Division, which subsequently became the Space Science Studies Division in 1993. She was appointed by Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia as Professor of Astrophysics in 1994.

She was appointed as a Director of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) in Vienna, Austria in 1999. Dr. Othman returned to Malaysia to become the founding Director General of the National Space Agency (ANGKASA) in July 2002. In this capacity she established the National Observatory in Langkawi and National Space Centre in Selangor.

She headed the National Angkasawan (Astronaut) Programme which saw the launch of the first Malaysian to the International Space Station in 2007. She was responsible for the launch of Malaysia Remote Sensing Satellites: TiungSAT and RazakSAT. She attended the Advanced Management Programme (AMP169) at Harvard Business School in 2005.

Dr. Othman resumed her post as Director of UNOOSA in December 2007 upon retirement from Malaysian Civil Service. She was appointed as the Deputy Director-General of the United Nations Office at Vienna (UNOV) in June 2009 and she retired from the United Nations in December 2013. Dr. Othman was appointed as the Project Director, Mega Science 3.0 at Academy of Sciences Malaysia (ASM) from 2014 to 2016.

She became the Professor Emeritus at UKM in 2015 and was a Fulbright Scholar at the Space Policy Institute of George Washington University from 2015 to 2016. Dr. Othman was elected as Senior Fellow of ASM in 2016. She was the Director of the International Science Council (ISC) Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP) from 2017 to 2021.