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Weijian Shan is a Chinese-American economist, businessman, and author. He was born in Beijing, China in 1954. He is the founder and managing partner of the private equity firm, PAG, and the author of the book Out of the Gobi: My Story of China and America. Shan earned his bachelor's degree in economics from Peking University in 1977 and his master's degree in economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1981. He then went on to work for the World Bank in Washington, D.C. and later for the Asian Development Bank in Manila. In 1989, Shan moved to Hong Kong to become the managing director of the China International Capital Corporation, the first joint venture investment bank in China. He then moved to the United States in 1994 to become the managing director of the China office of the private equity firm, Warburg Pincus. In 2002, Shan founded the private equity firm, PAG, which has since become one of the largest and most successful private equity firms in Asia. He is also the author of the book Out of the Gobi: My Story of China and America, which chronicles his journey from Beijing to the United States. Shan is currently 69 years old and has an estimated net worth of $1.5 billion.

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2019

Shan is a frequent contributor to journals and newspapers. His commentary on the Chinese economy has appeared in The New York Times, Financial Times, and WSJ. His memoir, Out of the Gobi: My Story of China and America, was published by Wiley in January 2019 and became a national bestseller in February 2019.

1987

In 1987, Shan worked at the World Bank in Washington, DC as an investment officer. He taught at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania for 6 years, where he founded the China Economic Review. He held various positions at JP Morgan between 1993 and 1998 in China, and joined TPG Capital thereafter.

1954

Born in China in 1954, Shan was raised in the midst of the Cultural Revolution, during which Mao Zedong closed all universities and dispatched youngsters to the countryside. In 1969, Shan was sent to Inner Mongolia where he spent 6 years in the Gobi desert. He returned to Beijing in 1975 to study English at the Beijing Institute of Foreign Trade (now University of International Business and Economics) and later moved to the United States among the first PRC students to study abroad after the Cultural Revolution. He first attended the University of San Francisco in 1980 where he earned an MBA, before continuing his study at the University of California, Berkeley for a masters in economics and a doctorate in business.