Weijian Shan

Weijian Shan is the Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of PAG, a leading Asia-based private equity firm. 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. Shan was a Managing Director of JP Morgan, where he was concurrently the Chief Representative for China between 1993 and 1998. He was an Assistant Professor of Management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, between 1987 and 1993. He also worked at the World Bank in 1987 as a member of its Young Professionals Programme. Shan spent six years as a Labourer in China's Gobi Desert in his youth, an experience he wrote about in his book Out of the Gobi: My Story of China and America.