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Winston Wenyan Ma, CFA & Esq.

Winston Ma is an investor, attorney, author, and adjunct professor in the global digital economy. He is one of a small number of native Chinese who have worked as investment professionals and practiced as capital markets attorneys in both the United States and China. Most recently, for 10 years, he was Managing Director and Head of North America Office for China Investment Corporation (CIC), China's sovereign wealth fund.

At CIC's inception in 2007, he was among the first group of overseas hires by CIC, where he was a founding member of both CIC's Private Equity Department and later the Special Investment Department for direct investing (Head of CIC North America office 2014–2015). He had leadership roles in global investments involving financial services, technology (TMT), energy, and natural resources sectors, including the setup of West Summit (Huashan) Capital, a cross-border growth capital fund in Silicon Valley, which was CIC's first overseas tech investment.

Prior to that, Ma served as the deputy head of equity capital markets at Barclays Capital, a vice president at J.P. Morgan investment banking, and a corporate lawyer at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP. A nationally certified software programmer as early as 1994, Ma is the book author of Investing in China: New Opportunities in a Transforming Stock Market (Risk Books, 2006), China's Mobile Economy: Opportunities in the Largest and Fastest Information Consumption Boom (Wiley, 2016; among “best 2016 business books for CIOs”), Digital Economy 2.0 (2017, Chinese), The Digital Silk Road (2018, German), and China's AI Big Bang (2019, Japanese).

He is also an adjunct professor at NYU School of Law. Relating to his course “Sovereign Investments & Regulations”, he published The Hunt for Unicorns: How Sovereign Funds Are Reshaping Investment in the Digital Economy (2020) with Wiley.

Ma has served on the boards of multinational listed and private companies. He was selected a 2013 Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum (WEF) and has been a member of the Council for Long-Term Investing and Council for Digital Economy and Society. He is a member of New York University (NYU) President's Global Council since its inception, and in 2014, he received the NYU Distinguished Alumni Award.

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