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Sheryl WuDunn

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November 16, 1959 in New York City, The United States

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Sheryl WuDunn is a Chinese American business executive, author, and lecturer who was the first Asian-American to win a Pulitzer Prize.

A senior banker focusing on growth companies in technology, new media and the emerging markets, WuDunn also works with double bottom line firms, alternative energy issues, and women entrepreneurs. She has also been a private wealth adviser with Goldman Sachs and was previously a journalist and business executive for The New York Times. She is now senior managing director at Mid-Market Securities [1] , a boutique investment banking firm in New York serving small and medium companies.

At the Times, WuDunn ran coverage of global energy, global markets, foreign technology and foreign industry. She oversaw internat...more

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Books by Sheryl WuDunn

Average rating: 4.33 · 9,422 ratings · 2,096 reviews · 4 distinct works

	Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn 4.36 avg rating — 8,957 ratings — published 2008 — 18 editions	My rating:
	China Wakes: The Struggle For The Soul Of A Rising Power by Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn 3.92 avg rating — 434 ratings — published 1994 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Thunder from the East: Portrait of a Rising Asia by Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn 3.75 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 2000 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Japanese economy at the millennium: Correspondents' insightful views (Headline series) by Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn, Ann Monjo (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1999	My rating:

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Quotes by Sheryl WuDunn

“Decades from now, people will look back and wonder how societies could have acquiesced in a sex slave trade in the twenty-first century that is... bigger than the transatlantic slave trade was in the nineteenth. They will be perplexed that we shrugged as a lack of investment in maternal health caused half a million women to perish in childbirth each year.”
― Sheryl WuDunn, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

tags: nonfiction , women-s-rights

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