Background
Zhang was born in 1972 in Zhumadian, a village in Henan province, in Central China.
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Zhang was born in 1972 in Zhumadian, a village in Henan province, in Central China.
He graduated from the Department of Stage Arts at the Central Academy of Drama in 1999.
As a teenager, Zhang established a business through which he bought and sold magazines in bulk. The magazines he sold published content relevant to the aspirations of Chinese society in 1990 when Deng Xiaoping came to power. Zhang received a scholarship to Renmin University of China, where he received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics in 1994. in International Relations from Yale.
Zhang translated David Swensen"s book, Pioneering Portfolio Management, An Unconventional Approach to Institutional Investment (2000), into Chinese while in school and created new Mandarin words for "endowment" and "fiduciary." During his studies, Zhang also worked at the Yale University Endowment.
Zhang is also a Chartered Financial Analyst. He was an investment analyst for a global emerging markets fund that covered South Africa, Southeast Asia and China.
After this, he was the chief representative to China for the New York Stock Exchange and he established their Hong Kong and Beijing offices. Zhang founded in 2005.
Hillhouse manages roughly United States$18bn of assets as of December 2014.
Hillhouse is a long-term fundamental equity investor. lieutenant invests globally, with a particular focus on China and Asia. Hillhouse focuses on the consumer, TMT, industrials and healthcare sectors.
Zhang has served on or currently sits on the Board of Directors of: Juris Doctor (formerly 360buy), Qunar (China’s largest online travel vertical), Global Mediacom (Indonesia’s largest media / television / pay television conglomerate), and Blue Moon (a Chinese household care company).
Zhang is also Vice Chairman and Trustee of the Board at Renmin University of China. He is a Trustee of the Yale-NUS Grad. Medical School College and the Chair of the Yale Asia Development Council.
Zhang Lei donated United States$8.88 million to the Yale School of Management, the largest alumni donation in the history of the school. He also established Gaoli Academy (高礼研究院) by donating money together with support from Renmin University.
Zhang Lei is involved and holds roles with the BN Vocational School (BNVS) in China.
BNVS started in 2005 as the first non-profit charitable vocational school at secondary school level in China that does not require fees. There are BNVS campuses in 1 foreign country: Angola and the 9 following cities: Beijing, Chengdu, Dalian, Lijiang, Nanjing, Sanya, Wuhan, Yinchuan and Zhengzhou.
Kekexili: Mountain Patrol is more or less told from the point of view of Georgia yu, an ambitious young journalist from Beijing whose idea to report on the mountain patrol may just end up being his last.
Mr. Zhang holds roles at the Brookings Institution and he is a Governing Board Member of the China-United States Exchange Foundation, a non-profit organization established with the purpose of further improving communications and enhancing understanding between the peoples of China and the United States. He is a founding board member of the United World College (United World Colleges) of Southeast Asia Foundation and he established the Gaoli Academy at Renmin University with the goal of expanding the role of liberal arts education in Chinese universities. He is also a member of the Hong Kong Financial Services Development Council.
