Ms. Kong was appointed as a Non-Executive Non-Independent Director of 3M India with effect from January 1, 2025. She is the APAC General Counsel of 3M Group and a member of the Global Business Counsel Operating Committee. She is a senior leader in the execution of strategies and key priorities of 3M Group across 12 jurisdictions in Asia and has broad experience across 3M Group’s Safety & Industrial Business, Transportation & Electronics Business, Enterprise Supply Chain, Customer Operations, and Environmental Health & Safety, since her joining 3M in 2020. Outside of 3M, Ms. Kong previously served as an Independent Non-Executive Director of Singapore Post, a leading e-commerce logistics solutions provider and a blue-chip company listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange. She is also a Trustee of Cambridge Assessment Singapore, and a Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust. Prior to 3M, Ms. Kong was an International Partner with Morgan Lewis Stamford and a Counsel with Clifford Chance, specializing in equity capital markets, public mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, funds, corporate governance, and securities regulation. She has experience advising on deals of an aggregate value exceeding $25 billion, and was noted in Chambers Asia, Legal 500, AsiaLaw Leading Lawyers, Lawyer Monthly and Acquisition International Legal, and was the youngest to be featured in Singapore Business Review’s inaugural list of “20 Most Influential 40 and Under Lawyers” and was also featured in Prestige Singapore’s list of “40 under 40”. Ms. Kong graduated with a Double First Class in Law from Cambridge University and holds an Executive MBA (with Distinction) from INSEAD and Tsinghua University.

Dr. Sebastián Partida is Senior Counsel for EMEA and LATAM at Adobe, based in Paris, France. He brings extensive international experience from previous roles at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Bouygues Construction, and TotalEnergies, advising on complex matters across the technology, infrastructure, and energy sectors.

Sebastián holds a PhD in Law from Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas, specializing in international arbitration. His practice covers a broad range of areas, including commercial and technology transactions, contract law, complex negotiations, litigation management, cross-border disputes, and international arbitration.

He is an active member of ICC France’s In-House Counsel Group and the Artificial Intelligence Scientific Committee of the French In-House Counsel Association (AFJE), where he contributes to thought leadership on the evolving role of corporate legal teams. In parallel, he teaches arbitration at the Paris Bar School (École du Barreau de Paris), sharing his expertise with future practitioners.