Scholar Education Group announced Dr. Liu Jianhua (Dr. Liu) would retire by rotation at the AGM and did not offer himself for re-election as he would like to devote more time to his other endeavours. Accordingly, Dr. Liu retired as an independent non-executive Director with effect from the conclusion of the AGM. Dr. Liu has confirmed that he has no disagreement with the Board and there are no matters that need tobe brought to the attention of the Shareholders in respect of his retirement.

The Board announced that Ms. Yim Ka Man (Ms. Yim) has been appointed as a Director with effect from the conclusion of the AGM at the 19 May 2023. Ms. Yim has over 15 years of experience in external audit, management accounting, operations management, internal control review, ESG reporting and enterprise risk assessment. She has been the Head of Risk Advisory Services at Mazars CPA Limited (Mazars), an international audit, tax and advisory firm, in Hong Kong since April 2021.

Prior to joining Mazars, she worked at BDO Risk Advisory from March 2014 to May 2015 as manager, and at Baker Tilly Hong Kong -- Risk Advisory from May 2015 to April 2021, with her last position as director. Prior to that, she has worked at various international accounting firms, where she was responsible for supervising auditors in a number of systems reviews and audit assignments for both listed companies, large private enterprises and listing applicants, and she has also worked at the internal audit departments of Miramar Group, a renowned hospitality group, and Hang Lung Properties, a leading property developer in Hong Kong. Ms. Yim is a member of CPA Australia and the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Ms. Yim received a Master of Laws (International and Commercial Law) degree from the University of Greenwich, the United Kingdom in November 2020 and a Bachelor of Business (Accounting and Banking & Finance) degree from Monash University, Australia in July 2002.