Weijian Shan has been a director of Alibaba since March 2022. He is the executive chairman and co-founder of PAG, a leading private equity firm in Asia, and was previously a partner of TPG and co-managing partner of TPG Asia (formerly Newbridge Capital) between 1998 and 2010. Earlier he was a managing director of JP Morgan and its chief representative for China from 1993 to 1998, and an assistant professor at the Wharton School from 1987 to 1993. Mr. Shan is a Trustee of the British Museum and has served as an independent director of Wilmar International and iQiyi. He holds an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from the University of San Francisco.