Anla Cheng

Chair/Founder of Serica and ex-CEO/Chair/Founder of The China Project.

Before this, Anla founded Centenium Capital – Asian hedge fund of fund. Anla started at Goldman Sachs, Citi as Asia PM, and at Robert Fleming /JPMorgan where she was Head, Institutional Asia desk.
She is Trustee of the following Boards: TNC (The Nature Conservancy, Vice Chair); China Institute, Vice Chair. Cheng is Member of the Facing History (Former Chair of the China Project); Global Council Member, Brookings; Committee 100 (former Trustee and current member), a member of NCUSCR and Columbia University Global Council. Her past Board affiliations include: Trustee of MOCA; Riverdale Country School, NY Community Trust and The Browning School.

Awards: 2023, Ellis Island Medal of Honor; 2019, Outstanding Leader, Ascend; 2015 Leadership and Service Award, NY Chinese Cultural Center; Blue Cloud Award, China Institute, February 2021; Legacy Award, MOCA, 2009. She has spoken as Keynote speaker at The Economist, London; Milken Institute – Singapore and Dubai; Evercore Annual Conference; Columbia University; Harvard University; NYU; Model UN; Schwarzman Scholars; and Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board; University of Pennsylvania, amongst many other events.

Ms. Cheng received her MBA from the Wharton Graduate School of Business and graduated magna cum laude, Pratt Institute.