BOC Aviation announced recently that Zhang Yanling, executive VP of Bank of China (BOC), is the new chairman of the board of BOC Aviation. Zhang is a member of the senior management of BOC and has served as executive VP of BOC since March 2002. She joined the bank in 1977 and served as executive assistant president from October 2000 to March 2002. Prior to that, she was GM of the Banking Department, GM of Milan Branch and GM of Legal Affairs Department.
Since June 2002, Zhang has been a non-executive director of BOCHK Holdings. She has also been serving in succession as chairman and vice-chairman of the board of directors in BOC International since September 2003.