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Ziwang Xu

Director at Synthesis Energy Systems

Mr. Xu has served as one of SES’s Directors since February 2010. Mr. Xu founded CXC Capital, Inc. and CXC China Sustainable Growth Fund in 2008. He was a private investor in growth companies in the natural resources sector, a developer of residential real estate properties in Shanghai, and an Advisory Director of Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. from 2005 to 2008. From 1997 to 2005, he was the Head of China for Goldman Sachs. Earlier, Ziwang Xu worked for Morgan Stanley, first in New York and then in China where he headed China from 1995 to 1997. His early career includes four years in Toronto and New York with the Bank of Montreal and two years with China Construction Bank in Shanghai. Mr. Xu received a Bachelor of Arts degree from East China Normal University in 1982 and a Masters in Economics from Fudan University in 1985. He completed his Master of Arts in International Business Relations at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts (USA) in 1988. He is an Advisory Partner at Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, an Honorary Fellow at the Dunhuang Research Institute, a member of the Board of Overseers of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, Vice Chairman of the Alumni Association of Economics and Finance at Fudan University, a Board Member of Guangcai 49 Group, a Council Member of Shanghai Comprehensive Economy Studies Council, a member of the Board of Overseers at Tufts University, and Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Xi Wai International School.

Timeline

  • Director

    Current role