Wei Christianson,nee Sun is the Chief Executive Officer and managing director of Morgan Stanley in Asia.
Education
Christianson applied to liberal arts colleges in the United States, and was accepted in 1983 to Amherst College as a transfer student and its first student from mainland China following China"s opening to the Western world in early 1980s. She graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in political science in 1985.
She immediately continued on to Columbia Law School, where she graduated with honors in international law in 1989.
Career
Following Columbia Law School, Wei Christianson worked as an attorney in the New York offices of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe. Christianson later joined Citigroup as a managing director and chairman of China, Citigroup Global Markets (Asia) Limited., where she was responsible for the securities and investment banking businesses in China. Christianson held a similar position with Cr Suisse First Boston, as a managing director, chairman and country manager.
As a banker, Wei has masterminded major initial public offerings including Sinopec, China Life, and SMIC, and oversaw the $4.2 billion acquisition of Gas Khazakstan by CNPC, which was the largest cross-border M&A deal ever undertaken in China at that time.
Membership
Wei joined Morgan Stanley, where she was an executive director, Beijing chief representative, and a senior team member of Morgan Stanley"s Resources, Power and Transportation Group.