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Jing Ulrich | |
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 Jing Ulrich in 2017 | |
| Born | Beijing, China, 1967 (55 years) |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Harvard University, (A.B.) Stanford University, (M.A.) |
| Known for | Ranked one ofFortune Magazine's 50 Most Powerful Global Businesswoman |
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Jing Ulrich, néeLi (李晶), is Managing Director and the Vice Chairman of Investment Banking atJPMorgan Chase.[1][2]
Various publications have listed her among the world's most powerful women. For example, in 2021, for the seventh consecutive year, Forbes China ranked Ulrich among the country's top businesswomen.[3] In October 2013,Fortune magazine for the fourth time, ranked Ulrich among the top 50 most powerful global businesswomen.[4] Likewise, in October 2013, theSouth China Morning Post featured Ulrich as one of Hong Kong's 25 most inspirational and influential women.[5] In 2016, she received the inaugural Asian Women Leadership Award from China Daily and Asia News Network.[6]
In 1990, Ulrich received a bachelor's degree with honors in English and American Literature fromHarvard University and in 1992 a master's degree in East Asian Studies fromStanford University.[7]
From 1994 to 1996, Ulrich worked as a fund manager for Greater China at Emerging Markets Management inWashington, D.C., and before that as an equity analyst at Bankers Finance Investment.[citation needed]
In his 1990 autobiography,To Life: The Story of a Chicago Lawyer, the juristElmer Gertz, a protégé ofClarence Darrow and defender of human rights, devoted several pages to Ulrich, whom he had met when she was still a teenager.[citation needed]
From 2003 to 2005, Ulrich was managing director of Greater China equities atDeutsche Bank.[8] Before joining Deutsche Bank, Ulrich spent seven years at CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets, where she led the top-ranked team covering the China market.[9]
Ulrich is currently vice chairman of investment banking atJPMorgan, which she joined in 2005 as a managing director. Since 2021, she has been based in New York. She provides strategic advice to the firm’s senior global clients across various sectors, including capital raising and other investment-banking services for transformative companies in the technology, industrial, healthcare, and consumer markets. Educated at Harvard and Stanford universities, Ulrich helps foster greater East-West collaboration while providing guidance on business and investment strategies for leading enterprises, private equity, and sovereign wealth funds from North America, Asia Pacific, and Europe.
Ulrich created and ran J.P.Morgan's China-investment summit that brought together, from forty countries, over two thousand fund managers, corporate executives, and outside experts to discuss opportunities for investing in China. Conferences run by Ulrich included keynote speeches by former officials such as Chinese PremierZhu Rongji, U.S. PresidentBill Clinton, Secretary of StateHenry Kissinger, and U.K. Prime MinisterTony Blair.[10]
As an advisor to the world’s largest asset-management companies, sovereign-wealth and pension funds, Ulrich’s views influence the allocation of trillions of dollars in assets.[11] She has also served as an advisor to foreign institutions making overseas investments.
Print and TV media have often interviewed Ulrich for her views on China. Before returning to the U.S. to focus on investment banking, she was a frequent guest ofMaria Bartiromo onCNBC'sClosing Bell investor news program. She also appeared on thePBSNightly Business Report.[2] In Asia she regularly spoke onBloomberg Television. Ulrich’s views, interviews, and columns have often appeared in publications such asThe Financial Times,The New York Times, andThe Wall Street Journal.
Since 2019, Ulrich has been serving as a member of the Supervisory Board for the global sportswear companyadidas AG[12] and in 2024 was re-elected for a further four-year term. In 2017, the German multinational firmBosch appointed Ulrich to its international advisory board. Ulrich also joined the International Chamber of Commerce G20 CEO Advisory Group,[13] which is the main forum for guiding business input into the G20 process. In addition, Ulrich served on the Strategy Advisory Board of private equity firm L. Catterton and the China Advisory Panel of real-estate company CapitaLand. In 2016, besides her duties at JPMorgan, Ulrich was appointed to the trade-and-investment task force of the B20 / G20 member states,[14] and in 2014 to theAsia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) China Business Council Multinational Advisory Committee.[15][16] Moreover, Ulrich has served as an independent director on the board ofGlaxoSmithKline,[17] a global healthcare company, on the board of Italian luxury-goods firm,Ermenegildo Zegna.[18] and on the International Advisory Council ofBocconi University[19] in Italy.
In October 2006, theSouth China Morning Post and the American Chamber of Commerce inHong Kong had chosen Ulrich as Hong Kong's Young Achiever of the Year[20] from among several hundred nominees.
An annual poll of institutional investors, published in June 2007, ranked Ulrich as head of the top China team worldwide – a title she held five times, according toInstitutional Investor magazine in June 2007, which put a photo of Ulrich on the cover of its international edition of that issue.[21] Until she moved into a more senior role, global investors in independent research polls of other publications such asAsiamoney magazine[22] repeatedly chose her as the best China strategist.
In 2010 and 2011[23][24]Fortune magazine named Jing Ulrich as one of the 50 most powerful global business women,[25] while the October 2010[26] and August 2008 editions ofForbes magazine put Ulrich on Forbes's list of the100 most powerful women in the world.,[27] with the more recent Forbes publication also including her among the world's "20 youngest power women".[28] In 2011 and 2012,[11]FinanceAsia named Ulrich one of the top 20 women in finance and top 30 bankers in China. In March 2012 and 2013,Forbes magazine named her one of Asia's top 50 powerful businesswomen.[29][30]
As of 2012 theSouth China Morning Post,China Daily, and others have referred to Ulrich as the "Oprah Winfrey of the investment world".[31]
Ulrich is aU.S. citizen and bilingual inMandarin andEnglish.
