Sheryl WuDunn is a best-selling author, business executive and lecturer. Currently, she is president of TripleEdge, a social investing consultancy, and works as a director with Mid-Market Securities, an investment banking boutique serving the middle market. She is co-author of Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, a New York Times best-selling book about the challenges facing women around the globe. 


WuDunn previously worked for The New York Times, The Miami Herald, Reuters, and The Wall Stret Journal in various roles. She has also been a vice president at Goldman Sachs Asset Management. WuDunn, the first Asian-American to win the Pulitzer Prize, was awarded the prize with her husband Nicholas Kristof for her reporting from Beijing about the Tiananmen Square protests. In addition to her Pulitzer, WuDunn has received the George Polk award for journalism and won an Overseas Press Club award. 


WuDunn graduated from Cornell University. She has also earned an MBA from the Harvard Business School and an MPA from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.

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