About

Ping An Insurance, a constituent of the Shanghai Stock Exchange 50 list, operates a diversified portfolio of financial services, including banking and insurance. Yao Jun has been chief legal officer of the company since 2003 and assumed responsibility for company secretarial duties in 2008. Yao contributes to the corporate governance of the company as a whole, the high standards of which were recognised with an award from the industry press. Yao also holds directorships at a number of the group’s subsidiaries, including their much vaunted banking operation, highlighting that his expertise is valued across the conglomerate. Ping An Insurance has been involved in some very important and legally complex matters recently, including its decision to open 10,000 medical clinics across mainland China, helping to relieve pressure on the country’s overburdened public health system. Prior to his career at Ping An, Yao provided himself with a very solid academic base on which to build, achieving a master’s degree in civil and commercial law along with a doctorate in legal sociology, which provided him with extensive technical legal knowledge. Yao is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries, in conjunction with his company secretarial role at Ping An.