caption birth_place birth_date spouse image article_title name occupation alma_mater
wudunn in october 2012 new york city 16 november 1959 nicholas d. kristof 1988 wudunn , sheryl.jpg sheryl wudunn
 sheryl wudunn writer , journalist , lecturer , business executive cornell school -lrb- m.b.a. -rrb- princeton university -lrb- m.p.a. -rrb- university -lrb- b.a. , 1981 -rrb- harvard business
sheryl wudunn

sheryl wudunn -lrb- born november 16 , 1959 -rrb- 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 .
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 .
she oversaw international business topics ranging from china 's economic growth to technology in japan , from oil and gas in russia to alternative energy in brazil .
she was also anchor of `` the new york times page one , '' a nightly program of the next day 's stories in the `` times '' .
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 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 times '' beijing and tokyo bureaus .
she speaks chinese and some japanese .
while in asia , she also reported from other areas , including north korea , australia , burma and the philippines .
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 .
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 .
