Ⅰ.Brief Introduction to the Speaker

Sheryl WuDunn（born on November 16,1959）is an American business executive, writer, lecturer, and Pulitzer Prize winner.

A third generation Chinese American, Sheryl WuDunn grew up in New York City.She attended Cornell University, graduating with a BA in European History in 1981.For three years, she worked for Bankers Trust Company as an international loan officer.After this, she earned her MBA from Harvard Business School.

After working for The Wall Street Journal and other publications，WuDunn joined the staff of The New York Times as a correspondent in the Beijing bureau in 1989.WuDunn and her husband Nicholas Kristof won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1990.Their joint reporting work in China and other developing nations convinced them both that, just as slavery was the moral issue of the 19th century, sex trafficking, gender-based violence and other abuses make women's rights the moral issue of the 21st century.In 2011, WuDunn was listed by Newsweek as“one of the 150 Women who Shake the World.”

As a journalist reporting on China, Sheryl WuDunn saw the everyday oppression of women around the world.She and her husband wrote Half the Sky, in which they make the case for empowering women as a means of development.Women tend to spend more on education, nutrition and business, the economic engines of growth in a community.And if we can find ways to develop the untapped potential of the millions of women who are now left uneducated, denied basic rights, oppressed and threatened, we'll turn on a firehose of economic power that could transform the developing world.