Few people in the financial circle don't know her. In recent years, when it comes to cross-strait trade and international relations, she is also common.
Lin Xiaru now teaches at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the University of Virginia. She was born in Taiwan Province Province, and her family went to the United States in middle school. /kloc-applied for advanced placement at Harvard University at the age of 0/6. At the age of 32, he became the youngest partner of Goldman Sachs, a well-known investment bank in Asia, in charge of 10 billion US dollars and invested in 12 countries in Asia. He is an early investor in Ma Yun's Alibaba Group and New Wave.
The 48-year-old Lin Xiaru is truly international and the best demonstration of cross-border career and lifelong learning.
Lin Xia, who speaks fast, can speak five languages, including English, Japanese, Chinese and Spanish. His talk is well-informed and always accompanied by cheerful laughter. After experiencing the heyday of Wall Street and witnessing the rise of venture capital in Asia, she returned to the University of Hong Kong at the age of 37 to pursue her doctorate. She also works as an interviewer at Harvard University, interviewing Asian students on behalf of Harvard alumni.
It is not easy for a family to cultivate Xia Ru, but the academic experiences of the four brothers and sisters Lin are all "gilded" and have no prominent family background. They all graduated from Ivy League universities and all (once) worked in the top three multinational financial industries in the world with high salaries and high pressure (except for the third sister, who is a lawyer of a non-profit organization).
"I want to pay off the school loan as soon as possible because I have to raise my tuition fees to go to college," Lin Xiaru said with a smile. She worked in England, Japan and Spain during her college years. "The spirit of the Lins is self-reliance."
Lin Xia attributed his brothers and sisters' life of "doing what they love" to their parents' education. His father Lin Shunhe was the first generation employee of IBM in Taiwan Province Province, and his mother Dai Chuntao was a middle school teacher. They rely on project management to raise their children, including holding family meetings from childhood, setting high goals, writing five-year plans, giving full support and demanding economic independence. In the 1970s and 1980s, when education could turn the tide, all four children were trained as international talents.