speaker and industry expert Winston Ma

Professor Winston Ma

Topic

Technology

Job Title

Global Tech Investor & Business Executive | NASDAQ Public Board Chairman | CIO Cloud & Data Infrastructure | Professor at New York University School of Law | Author

Location

New York, United States

Language

English, Mandarin

Why?

Professor Winston Ma, CFA & Esq. is an investor, attorney, author, and adjunct professor in the global digital economy. He is one of a small number of native Chinese who have worked as investment professionals and practicing capital markets attorneys in both the United States and China.

Speaking Topics

  • Global Digital Economy and 4th Industrial Revolution
  • International Law and Policy Tensions (AI, data, fintech)
  • China-US Geopolitics
  • The Intersection of Digital Revolution
  • Sovereign Capital
  • Future of Money: US vs China
  • China – US tech war: semiconductors, AI, cybersecurity
  • AI

Expert Profile

Winston Ma, CFA & Esq., is an investor, attorney, author, and adjunct professor in the global AI-digital economy. He is a partner of Dragon Global, an AI-focused family office (founding member: Dragon.AI), and he is also an advisory board member of Capgemini (the Paris-headquartered Global IT consulting firm), Chairman and Co-Founder of ALPHA Technologies (an advanced AI conversational artifact startup), and an Adjunct Professor at NYU Law School on SWF fund and tech investing topics.

Most recently for 10 years, he was Managing Director and Head of North America Office for China Investment Corporation (CIC), China’s sovereign wealth fund. Prior to that, Mr. Ma served as the deputy head of equity capital markets at Barclays Capital, a vice president at J.P. Morgan investment banking, and a corporate lawyer at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP. He is one of a small number of native Chinese who have worked as investment professionals and practicing capital markets attorneys in both the United States and China.

 A nationally certified Software Programmer as early as 1994, Mr. Ma is the author of more than 10 books on SWF funds, China, and global digital economy, including The Hunt for Unicorns: How Sovereign Funds are Reshaping Investment in the Digital Economy  and most recently Blockchain and Web3” (among 2024 “six must-read blockchain books” by TechTarget). He has been frequently interviewed by CNBC and Bloomberg TV and quoted by major financial media including WSJ, Reuters, and Financial Times. He was selected a 2013 Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum (WEF), and in 2014 he received the NYU Distinguished Alumni Award.

Books By Winston

The Digital War
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China’s Mobile Economy
China’s Mobile Economy