Weijian Shan

Weijian Shan has served as the director since December 2022. Weijian Shan is the executive chairman and co-founder of PAG – one of Asia’s leading investment management groups. Between 1998 and 2010, he was co-managing partner of the private equity firm Newbridge Capital (now known as TPG Asia) and a partner of TPG. Before Newbridge, Shan was a managing director at J.P. Morgan where he worked for five years. He was an assistant professor at the Wharton School, the University of Pennsylvania for six years. He also worked at the World Bank in 1987. Shan is a Trustee of the British Museum. He is also member of the International Advisory Council of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited. Shan is the author of three books: Out of the Gobi, Money Games and Money Machine. Shan holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.B.A. from the University of San Francisco. He graduated with a major in English from the Beijing University of International Business and Economics.