Minth Group Limited appointed Professor Meng Li Qiu as an independent non-executive director. Professor Meng Li Qiu, aged 60, received her Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Cartography from the Institute of Surveying and Mapping of People's Liberation Army in 1982 and 1985 respectively, and her Ph.D. in Geodetic Engineering from the University of Hannover in 1993. Professor Meng received her professor qualification for Geo-informatics at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in 1998 and was appointed to the Chair professor for Cartography at the Technical University of Munich in October of the same year.

Professor Meng's key research areas include automatic map generalization, pattern recognition with neural networks, spatial data integration, semantic enrichment of 3D buildings, multimodal navigation algorithm, mobile map services, event mapping, visual analytics, ethical issues in AI, and HD map for autonomous driving. She was awarded the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Medal'' in 2007 and the Carus Medal and Prize'' in 2011. Professor Meng was Senator of the Helmholtz Association from 2009 to 2012.

She served as Senior Vice-President of TUM from April 2008 to March 2014. She is currently a member of the German National Academy of Sciences and of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. As at the date of this announcement, Professor Meng did not hold any position with the Company and other members of the Group.