Nonghyup Financial Group held an executive candidate recommendation committee on the 25th and recommended three candidates, Seo Eun-sook, professor of economics and finance at Sangmyung University, Lee Soon-ho, head of the Bank and Insurance Research Division at Korea Financial Research Institute, and Ha Kyung-ja.

The new candidates for outside directors recommended this time will replace Lee Jin-soon and Nam Yoo-sun, who will expire at the end of March, and Lee Mi-kyung, who will be vacant due to their resignation, as outside directors of Nonghyup Financial Group.

Candidate Seo Eun-sook is currently a professor of economics and finance at Sangmyung University and is considered an expert active in the economic and financial fields, including the Ministry of Strategy and Finance’s fiscal policy advisor, the Korea Investment Corporation’s steering committee, and the Korea Credit Guarantee Fund’s asset management committee.

Candidate Lee Soon-ho is the head of the Bank and Insurance Research Division 2 of the Korea Institute of Finance. Currently, he serves as a big data advisor for credit information of the Korea Credit Information Service and an advisor for the protection of financial consumers and prevention of bank disputes of the Korea Federation of Banks, and is evaluated as having deep insight into the banking and insurance fields.

Ha Kyung-ja, a professor of atmospheric environment science at Pusan National University, is known to be an active ESG expert in climate and environment, including the chairman of the Korea Meteorological Association, the chairman of the National Life Science Advisory Group, and World Meteorological Organization. economy stock

The three candidates will be finally appointed at the shareholders’ meeting of Nonghyup Financial Group scheduled to be held on the 31st, and their terms of office will begin on April 1, 2022.