Sheryl WuDunn

Sheryl WuDunn, the first Asian-American reporter to win a Pulitzer Prize, is a business executive, lecturer, and best-selling author. Currently, she is Senior Managing Director with Mid-Market Securities, an investment banking boutique. Previously, WuDunn was vice president and investment advisor for private clients at Goldman, Sachs & Co. and a commercial loan officer at Bankers Trust. She also worked at The New York Times as both an executive and journalist. WuDann is co-author of Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, a New York Times best-selling book about the challenges facing women around the globe. With her husband, Nicholas D. Kristof, WuDann has co-authored two other best-selling books about Asia: Thunder from the East and China Wakes. WuDunn won a Pulitzer Prize with her husband for covering China, along with the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Lifetime Achievement. In 2011, Newsweek cited WuDunn as one of the “150 Women Who Shake the World.”