The board of directors KNT Holdings Limited announced that Dr. Dong Bin ("Dr. Dong") has been appointed as an executive Director and the vice chairman of the Board with effect from 1 June 2023. Dr. Dong, aged 46, graduated from the Department of Economics of the Tianjin Institute of Finance in 1997. From 2002 to 2003 when serving at Beijing Urban Construction Group Co., Ltd, he was sent to Keele University in the United Kingdom to take the master of business administration course under the Department of Management of the Faculty of Social Sciences.

He obtained a doctorate in management science and engineering from the China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing) in 2018. Dr. Dong possesses over 20 years of experience in business management. In 2005, Dr. Dong was appointed as the International Marketing Director of Beijing Urban Construction Group Co.

Ltd. From 2013 to 2017, Dr. Dong was the General Manager of the International Cooperation Department of Beijing Capital Group and served at the Capital Account Management Department of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange on secondment. Dr. Dong is currently the president of the Chaoyang (Beijing) Foreign Economic Cooperation Association, the Executive President of the Sino-International Entrepreneurs Federation, the Director and Chief Representative of the Beijing Centre of the Sino-International Entrepreneurs Federation, an executive member of the Chaoyang District Federation of Industry and Commerce of Beijing Municipality, the Director of the Center for the Study of Group 20, and the chairman of the organising committees of the Sino-European Entrepreneurs Summit, the China-Africa Investment Summit and the Sino-Australasian Entrepreneurs Summit. During the period between 2010 and 2013, Dr. Dong was the Special Assistant to Mr. Long Yongtu, the former Secretary-General of the Boao Forum for Asia, and the founder and vice chairman of the organising committee of the International Capital Conference of the Boao Forum for Asia.