Sheryl WuDunn
Executive, Lecturer, and Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist
Sheryl WuDunn, the first Chinese-American reporter to win a Pulitzer Prize, has been a longtime banker, New York Times journalist, best-selling author, business consultant and wine-maker. She co-founded and is principal of FullSky Partners, advising for-profit ventures with a social mission in technology and healthcare, and helping drive philanthropic funding into innovative cancer therapeutics and diagnostics. She is also co-owner of Kristof Farms, which produces Kristof Wines and award-winning Kristof Farms cider.
Previously, WuDunn was a vice president in the investment management division at Goldman Sachs and had a long career at The New York Times as both a journalist and an executive, including serving as a foreign correspondent based in Beijing and Tokyo. She is co-author with her husband, Nicholas D. Kristof, of five best-selling nonfiction books, several of which became PBS documentaries.
WuDunn has been recognized by Newsweek, Fast Company, PBS, and Business Insider, and holds an MBA from Harvard, an MPA from Princeton, and a BA from Cornell. She serves on Harvard’s Board of Overseers and has taught or lectured at Harvard Kennedy School, Yale, and other universities. WuDunn and Kristof have three children, and she enjoys reading, hiking, and wine.
