Weijian Shan is Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of PAG, a leading private equity firm in Asia. Formerly, he was a partner at the private equity firm TPG and co-managing partner of TPG-Asia (formerly known as Newbridge Capital). Prior to his career in private equity, Shan was, at different times, a managing director at JP Morgan and a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He holds an MA and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MBA from the University of San Francisco. Shan is member of the Board of Trustees of the British Museum and the International Advisory Council of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. He is also the author of Out of the Gobi: My Story of China and America and Money Games: The Inside Story of How American Dealmakers Saved Korea's Most Iconic Bank.
