Wei Sun Christianson – biography
A Managing Director and China CEO, Wei Sun Christianson, 54, is responsible for all aspects of the Firm's operations in China. In addition, she is a member of Morgan Stanley's Management Committee.
Under Ms. Christianson's leadership, Morgan Stanley has broadened its onshore footprint in China to include commercial banking, asset management and trust services. In addition, the Firm has received regulatory approval for a domestic securities joint venture.
She first joined Morgan Stanley in 1998 working in the Firm's investment banking division. Between 2002 and 2005 she served as Chairman for China for Credit Suisse and subsequently for Citigroup Global Markets. She rejoined Morgan Stanley at the beginning of 2006 in her current role. During her banking career Ms. Christianson has held senior roles advising on many of China's landmark privatizations, and on M&A transactions by overseas listed Chinese companies.
Before starting her investment banking career, Wei Sun Christianson was an Associate Director at the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC). While at the SFC, she helped formulate the regulations in preparation for the Hong Kong public listings of the first group of Mainland Chinese companies in 1993. Prior to this, she was a lawyer in New York with Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe.
Ms. Christianson was named on the FORTUNE Most Powerful Women "International Power 50" list in 2008, 2009 and 2010, and was one of the Wall Street Journal's "50 Women to Watch" from 2006-2008. She is also on Forbes' "Power Women in the Wings" and the Financial Times' "Women at the Top: The Ones to Watch" lists.
She serves on the board of trustees of Amherst College, Massachusetts, and was recently appointed to the Estee Lauder Company's board of directors.
Ms. Christianson graduated cum laude from Amherst College, Massachusetts. In 1989, she received her J.D. degree from the Columbia University School of Law and is admitted to practice law in the State of New York. She is married with three children.
Early career[edit]
From 1994 to 1996, Ulrich worked as a fund manager for Greater China at Emerging Markets Management in Washington, D.C. and before that as an equity analyst at Bankers Finance Investment. In 1990, she received a bachelor's degree with honors in English and American Literature from Harvard University and in 1992 a master's degree in International Relations from Stanford University.[10]
In his 1990 autobiography, To Life: The Story of a Chicago Lawyer, the respected jurist, Elmer Gertz, a protégé of Clarence Darrow and defender of human rights, devoted several pages to Ulrich, whom he had met when she was still a teenager. Her drive and talent, even at that age, prompted him to predict she would one day become a leader of China.
Deutsche Bank[edit]
From 2003 to 2005, Ulrich was managing director of Greater China equities at Deutsche Bank.[11] Before joining Deutsche Bank, Ulrich spent seven years at CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets, where she led the top-ranked team covering the China market.[12]
Later career[edit]
Ulrich has been the managing director and chairman of global markets, China at JPMorgan since 2005.[1][13]
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