Jing Ulrich

Jing Ulrich (李晶）(b. 1967, Beijing, China) is managing director and chairman of JPMorgan's China equities business.cite news |url= http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/05/23/bloomberg/sxwealth.php |title= To get rich is glorious and risky |author= William Mellor and Allen T. Cheng, "Bloomberg News" |format= html |work= International Herald Tribune |date= 23 May 2006 |quote= ] cite web |url= http://www.pbs.org/nbr/site/onair/transcripts/060621f/ |title= One On One With Jing Ulrich, Chairman of Chinese Equities at J.P. Morgan |author= Susie Gharib |format= html |work= Nightly Business Report transcripts |date= 21 June 2006 |quote= ] She is in charge of expanding JPMorgan's equity business in China and worldwide by strengthening the company's relationships with institutional investors, corporate clients, and Chinese regulatory authorities. Ulrich also created and runs the JPMorgan's "Hands-on China" series of expert speakers.cite web |url= http://www.eempc.org/films/China'sSorrowEarth'sHope.pdf |title= (Example) Hands on China Series: Views you can use |format= pdf |work= [http://www.eempc.org/ Environmental Education Media Project for China] |quote= ] Each year she organizes a China-investor conference that brings together over two thousand fund managers, corporate executives, and outside experts to discuss opportunities for investing in China. Previous conferences run by Ulrich have included keynote speeches by former Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji and U.S. President Bill Clinton.cite web |url= https://www.clsa.com/public/forums/press/swf/20030915_CF03.swf|title= CLSA Holds Milestone 10th Investors’ Forum |author= Press Release |format= html |work= CLSA website. |date= 15 September 2003 |quote= ]

The August 2008 edition of Forbes Magazine put Jing Ulrich on its list of the 100 most powerful women in the world. Two years earlier, in October 2006, the South China Morning Post and the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong had chosen Ulrich as Hong Kong's Young Achiever of the Yearcite web |url= http://www.amcham.org.hk/component/option,com_gigcal/task,details/gigcal_gigs_id,100/Itemid,483/ |title= The Six Megatrends Shaping China: Jing Ulrich, Managing Director and Chairman, China Equities, JPMorgan |author= |format= html |work= American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong |date= 15 June 2007 |quote= ] from among several hundred nominees.

As a prominent advisor to the world’s largest asset-management companies, sovereign-wealth and pension funds, Ulrich’s viewsinfluence the allocation of trillions of dollars in assets. She also serves as an advisor to Chinese institutions making investments overseas.

An annual poll of institutional investors, published in June 2007, ranked Ulrich as head of the top China team worldwide – a title she has held five times, according to "Institutional Investor" magazine in June 2007, which put a photo of Ulrich on the cover of its international edition of that issue.cite web |url= http://www.iimagazine.com/LargeCover.aspx?IssueID=60573 |title= Magazine cover |format= html |work= Institutional Investor magazine |date= 13 June 2007 |quote= ] During the past decade, Ulrich has achieved recognition as the industry’s most respected China watcher. Global investors in independent research polls of other publications such as "Asiamoney" magazinecite web |url= http://www.asiamoney.com/default.asp?SM=ALL&DatePeriod=0&OB=R&Catalog=AMY&Page=13&searchstr=jing+ulrich |title= Asiamoney site search, 4 articles shown |format= html |work= Asiamoney magazine |quote= ] have repeatedly chosen her as the best China strategist.

Print and TV media often interview Ulrich for her views on China. When traveling to the U.S. she is a frequent guest of Maria Bartiromo on CNBC's "Closing Bell" investor news program.cite web |url= http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Jing+Ulrich%22+%22Maria+Bartiromo%22&btnG=Search |title= Search results for "Jing Ulrich" "Maria Bartiromo" |format= html |work= Google search |quote= ] She has also appeared on the PBS Nightly Business Report. In Asia she regularly speaks on Bloomberg Television.cite web |url= http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Jing+Ulrich%22+bloomberg&btnG=Search |title= Search results for "Jing Ulrich" Bloomberg |format= html |work= Google search |quote= ]

From 2003 to 2005, Ulrich was managing director of Greater China equities at Deutsche Bank.cite web |url= http://www.db.com/presse/en/content/press_releases_2003_2262.htm?month=9 |title= Deutsche Bank appoints Head of Equity Research for Greater China |author= Press Release |format= html |work= Deutsche Bank website. |date= 7 April 2003 |quote= ] Before joining Deutsche Bank, Ulrich spent seven years at Credit Lyonnais Securities Asia, where she led the top-ranked team covering the China market.cite web |url= http://old.institutionalinvestor.com/includes/rankings/show.asp?searchtype=A&iyear=2000&teamID=3&id=1254 |title= CLSA Global Emerging Markets: First Team - China |format= html |work= Institutional Investor website |quote= ]

Before 1996, Ulrich worked as a fund manager for Greater China at [http://208.254.22.7/ Emerging Markets] in Washington, D.C. In 1990, she received a bachelor's degree with honors from Harvard University and in 1992 a master's degree from Stanford University.

In his 1990 autobiography, "To Life: The Story of a Chicago Lawyer," the respected jurist, Elmer Gertz, a protégé of Clarence Darrow and defender of human rights, devoted several pages to Ulrich, whom he had met when she was still a teenager. Her drive and talent, even at that age, prompted him to predict she would one day become a leader of China.

Jing Ulrich is bilingual in Mandarin and English. She lives in Hong Kong and is married to Paul Ulrich, the author of the novel, "Saudi Match Point."

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* [http://www.jpmorgan.com/pages/jpmorgan/investbk/global/ap/hos Hands-On Series Reports at JPMorgan]