Sheryl WuDunn is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author who has reported from inside some of the toughest regimes in the world. As a banker, she has a deep knowledge of finance and the global economy and was the lead correspondent for The New York Times covering Japan’s financial crisis. Her long-time coverage of the economic development of China and other emerging markets has given her a broad understanding of the global economy.

She and her husband, Nicholas D. Kristof, have been published on their work looking at women in the developing world. Her experiences trekking through Asia, along with the reporting her husband has done as an Op-Ed columnist for The Times, led the two of them to write Half the Sky: From Oppression to Opportunity for Women Worldwide, which illuminates the stories of many women who have suffered excruciatingly under their society’s feudal attitudes toward women.

Ms. WuDunn was The Times’ first television anchor for its nightly headlines broadcast, and she helped develop a four-hour documentary on China for The Times’ Discovery Times Channel. She has won other journalism prizes, including the Polk and Overseas Press Club awards.

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Ms. WuDunn will deliver a keynote address entitled The Challenge of Our Century at the conference. Click here to read the full conference schedule »