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It was turned into a widely watched PBS documentary, featuring Jennifer Garner, Eva Longoria, Alfre Woodard, Blake Lively, in early 2015.
WuDunn served for more than a decade on the Cornell University board of trustees, including as a member of the board's finance committee and investment committee. This book demands reading, and yet it is a pleasure as well as an education." —David Remnick, Editor of The New Yorker
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Series
Books:
A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity, October 2014Hardcover / e-Book
Half The Sky, June 2010
Paperback / e-Book
Half the Sky, September 2009
Hardcover
China Wakes, August 1995
Paperback
Sheryl WuDunn
Sheryl WuDunn (born November 16, 1959) is an American business executive, writer, lecturer, and Pulitzer Prize winner.
A senior banker focusing on growth companies in technology, new media and the emerging markets, WuDunn also works with double bottom line firms, alternative energy issues, and women entrepreneurs.
In August 2015, Business Insider named her one of the 31 most prominent graduates of the Harvard Business School.
In 2015 she signed an open letter which the ONE Campaign had been collecting signatures for; the letter was addressed to Angela Merkel and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, urging them to focus on women as they serve as the head of the G7 in Germany and the AU in South Africa respectively, which will start to set the priorities in development funding before a main UN summit in September 2015 that will establish new development goals for the generation.
WuDunn has co-authored four best-sellers with her husband.
WuDunn is also on the advisory boards of a number of start-up companies in a variety of fields, including healthcare and mobile security.
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China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power
"Nick Kristof's and Sheryl WuDunn's work as correspondents in China was beyond compare, and now they have written a book every bit as astonishing.
She attended Cornell University, graduating with a B.A. in European History in 1981. Initially appointed to the Cornell board by the university president, she was later reappointed by the New York governor and served under two governors. China Wakes is filled with anecdote, detail, and analysis of the highest order.... She formerly was journalist/anchor of The New York Times Page One, a production of New York Times Television Enterprises.
She has also been a private wealth adviser with Goldman Sachs and was previously a journalist and business executive for The New York Times. She is now senior managing director at Mid-Market Securities , a boutique investment banking firm in New York serving small and medium companies.
At the Times, WuDunn ran coverage of global energy, global markets, foreign technology and foreign industry.
After working for The Wall Street Journal and other publications, WuDunn joined the staff of The New York Times as a correspondent in the Beijing bureau in 1989.
WuDunn worked for a time for Goldman Sachs as a vice president in its investment management division as a private wealth advisor, before leaving to write a book.
WuDunn and her husband Kristof won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1990 for their coverage of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
She also served for many years on the advisory council of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and in 2013 was elected by alumni to the Princeton University board of trustees. In 2013, she was included as one of the leading "women who make America" in the PBS documentary "The Makers." She was also featured in a 2013 Harvard Business School film about prominent women who have graduated from the business school.
She was one of the few people at the Times who went back and forth between the news and business sides of the organization.
She was the first Asian-American reporter hired at the Times and was a foreign correspondent in The New York TimesBeijing and Tokyo bureaus. She also worked in the Times's Strategic Planning Department and in the Circulation Department, where she ran the effort to build the next generation of readers for the newspaper.
She also won a George Polk Award and an Overseas Press Club award, both for reporting in China.
In 2009, WuDunn and Kristof received the Dayton Literary Peace Prize's 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award.
She is a commentator on China and global affairs on television and radio shows, including Bloomberg TV, NPR, The Colbert Report and Charlie Rose, and has lectured at the International Monetary Fund and World Bank and the Council on Foreign Relations.
A third generation Chinese American, Sheryl WuDunn grew up in New York City on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power and Thunder from the East: Portrait of a Rising Asia are non-fictionAsian studies books which examine the cultural, social, and political situation of East Asia largely through interviews and personal experiences. In 2011, WuDunn was listed by Newsweek as one of the 150 Women who Shake the World.
In 2012, WuDunn was selected as one of 60 notable members of the League of Extraordinary Women by Fast Company magazine.
WuDunn, recipient of honorary doctorates from University of Pennsylvania and Middlebury College, was a senior lecturer at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs in the fall of 2011.