2020 Annual General Meeting - Call for Nominations
AustCham Shanghai will be hosting the 2020 Annual General Meeting on 19th June 2020.
Formal notice of the Election will be circulated via email on Wednesday 10th June 2020, including the finalised election slate of eligible and validly nominated candidates for Board election.
- Closing date for nomination of candidates is 5pm (China Standard Time) on Tuesday 26th May 2020.
- A rotational system allows a 2 year term of office for each elected Board Director, thereby ensuring that in each annual management cycle a useful balance of continuity and experience and fresh input to the Board will be sustained.
1. Current Board Directors continuing their current term (2019-2021) for a second year are (alphabetically by surname):
2. Current Board Directors stepping down automatically on completion of a two-year term 2018-2020 are (alphabetically by surname):
3. Current Board Directors stepping down automatically on completion of an interim appointment to the Board are:
4. An additional Director position is available following the resignation of Cameron Hume from his recent interim appointment.
5. The CEO & Executive Director is appointed automatically as a full Voting Director on the Board of Directors each year, but does not vote as a Voting Member at the AGM.
6. The Members Charter (Schedule B, Article 1.1) requires the number of elected Directors to be ten (10) persons, including the two officers (listed in Article 1.5).
7. A minimum of 80% of the Board shall be Australian citizens and at most 20% of the Board may be non-Australian citizens (Members Charter, Schedule B, Article 1.2).
Board Director Positions 2020 – 2022
At the AGM 2020, six (6) incoming Directors must be elected to the Board by the Voting Member Representatives for the two-year term 2020 – 2022.
- Eligibility to Stand for Election to the Board of Directors 2020 - 2022
- Proposing and Seconding Candidates
- Validity and Receipt of Nominations
- Director's Code of Conduct
- AustCham Shanghai Values Statement
- AustCham Shanghai Directors' Skills Self-Assessment
- Nomination Form
Further details regarding the Nominations and Elections process are available on the website (www.austchamshanghai.com), in the Members' Charter and its schedules.
Agreement of personal responsibility, confidentiality and non-solicitation
Each incoming Board Director, once elected, is required to sign the Directors’ Code of Conduct, outlining Board Director obligations to AustCham Shanghai (for example attendance at meetings, confidentiality of information, duty of care and other related matters). A copy of the Code is available on the AustCham Shanghai website (www.austchamshanghai.com), in the links above, or may be obtained for your reference by contacting the Company Secretary, Lisa Pipito, at lisa.pipito@austchamshanghai.com.
Candidate enquiries
Any Member, including those who are intending to nominate, may direct AGM and election related enquiries, particularly regarding nominations, to Lisa Pipito, Company Secretary, in the first instance on email lisa.pipito@austchamshanghai.com or phone 86 21 6149 0600.
Contact details update and Corporate Member in good standing checks
To ensure that formal notices and related information can be correctly sent and registered, please check with Miley Yin to ensure your membership details are currently up to date, correctly registered and any outstanding monies payable are up to date. Miley Yin is contactable via miley.yin@austschamshanghai.com.
