Sheryl WuDunn

Sheryl WuDunn (zh-tsp|t=伍潔芳|s=伍洁芳|p=Wǔ Jiéfāng; born 1959) is a Chinese American private wealth advisor with Goldman Sachs and was previously a journalist and editor for "The New York Times". She was previously the industry and international business editor at the Times. She formerly was journalist/anchor of "The New York Times Page One", a production of New York Times Television Enterprises. She also has worked in "The New York Times" Beijing and Tokyo bureaus, as well as for the "Miami Herald", Reuters, and "The Wall Street Journal". She is perhaps best known for winning the Pulitzer Prize with her husband Nicholas D. Kristof for her reporting from Beijing about the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. WuDunn and Kristof were the first married couple ever to receive the award for journalism.

Sheryl WuDunn was anchor and principal writer for “Page One” on The Discovery Times Channel, a joint venture between Discovery Communications, Inc. and The New York Times Company. “Page One” is the network’s nightly three-minute program that gives viewers an exclusive first look at the stories headed for the next day’s front page of The New York Times.

Previously Sheryl WuDunn was a project director in Strategic Planning at The Times since September 2001. Before that she ran the effort to build the next generation of readers for the New York Times NexGen program.

She was a staff foreign correspondent for The New York Times in the Tokyo bureau where she wrote about economic, financial, political and social issues from 1995 to 1999. Ms. WuDunn joined The New York Times as a correspondent in the Beijing bureau in March 1989.

Biography

A third generation Chinese American, Sheryl WuDunn grew up in New York City in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. She attended Cornell University, graduating with a B.A. in European History in 1981. [http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Feb04/Workplace.colloq.04.lm.html Cornell News: Cornell Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) workplace colloqium webpage] ] For three years, WuDunn worked for Bankers Trust Company as an international loan officer. After this, she earned her M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and M.P.A. from Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

WuDunn married fellow reporter Nicholas D. Kristof in 1988."Sheryl WuDunn Wed to Reporter." "The New York Times", 9 October 1988] After working with several prestigious publications, WuDunn joined the staff of "The New York Times" as a correspondent in the Beijing bureau in 1989. Following their work in Beijing, Kristof and WuDunn moved to Tokyo and continued to report for "The New York Times." She currently serves on the Cornell University Board of Trustees.

She was recently hired by Goldman Sachs to tout securities for them to wealthy clients. [http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=agzMMPZAouLw&refer=home Bloomberg.com: Exclusive ] ]

Books

WuDunn has co-authored with her husband, ' and ', two non-fiction Asian studies books which examine the cultural, social, and political situation of East Asia largely through interviews and personal experiences.

In May 2007, it was announced that WuDunn would leave the "Times" to co-write another book with Kristof:

"Her first project will be to co-write another book — with guess who? (that would be Nick Kristof, of course) — about women in the developing world. Sheryl and Nick already have co-authored two books about Asia, and of course she has won several major journalism awards.

The new book is tentatively titled either "It Takes a Woman," or "Lost Daughters," and Sheryl says, “I’m looking forward to reporting for the book, maybe even wading through a rice paddy here or there. Those on-the-ground experiences will be particularly special because they will be my last such ones. After that, I will be leaving journalism.” ["Sheryl WuDunn Departing." "Ahead of the Times", 4 May 2007.]

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