People

Weijian Shan

Weijian Shan

Formal First Name
Weijian
Dates
1954 - present
Location

Weijian Shan is Group Chairman and CEO of PAG, a private equity firm that invests throughout Asia and beyond. With over 20 years of experience in investing, he has led various landmark transactions across Asia. These include the acquisitions of Korea First Bank and China’s Shenzhen Development Bank, both of which resulted in billions of dollars in profits and were made into case studies of Harvard Business School. Shan also authored several books and a number of commentaries published in the New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, among others.

  • Shan received no formal secondary education.
  • He studied English at the Beijing Institute of Foreign Trade, where he also taught as a faculty member
  • He has appeared as a guest on Real Vision.