Sheryl WuDunn (; born New York City, November 16, 1959) is a Chinese American author, lecturer and businesswoman who was the first Asian-American to win a Pulitzer Prize.

A banker focusing on growth companies, double bottom line firms, alternative energy issues, and women entrepreneurs, WuDunn has also been a private wealth adviser with Goldman Sachs and was previously a journalist and business executive for The New York Times. She is now senior managing director at Mid-Market Securities

, an investment banking firm in New York serving small and medium companies trying to break out.

At the Times, WuDunn ran coverage of global energy, global markets, foreign technology and foreign industry. She oversaw international business topics ranging from China's economic growth to technology in Japan, from oil and gas in Russia to alternative energy in Brazil. She was also anchor of The New York Times Page One, a nightly program of the next day's stories in the Times. She also worked in the Times's Strategic Planning Department and in the Circulation Department, where she ran the effort to build the next generation of readers for the newspaper. She was one of the few people at The Times who went back and forth between the news and business sides of the organization.

She earlier was a foreign correspondent in The New York Times Beijing and Tokyo bureaus, and speaks Chinese and Japanese . While in Asia, she also reported from other areas, including North Korea, Australia, Burma and the Philippines.

A third generation Chinese American, Sheryl WuDunn grew up in New York City in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. She attended Cornell University, graduating with a B.A. in European History in 1981. For three years, WuDunn worked for Bankers Trust Company as an international loan officer. After this, she earned her M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and M.P.A. from Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

WuDunn married fellow reporter Nicholas D. Kristof in 1988. After working with several prestigious publications, WuDunn joined the staff of The New York Times as a correspondent in the Beijing bureau in 1989. She currently serves on the Cornell University Board of Trustees, is a member of the board's finance committee, and previously served on the board's investment committee. She also served on the advisory council of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.

WuDunn worked for a time for Goldman Sachs as a vice president in its investment management division as a private wealth advisor, before being laid off in November 2008.

She won the Pulitzer Prize with her husband Nicholas D. Kristof for her reporting from Beijing about the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. WuDunn and Kristof were the first married couple ever to receive a Pulitzer for journalism. In addition to the Pulitzer, she also won a George Polk Award and an Overseas Press Club award, both for reporting in China.

In 2009, WuDunn and Kristof received the Dayton Literary Peace Prize's 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award.

• Interview with Wudunn for Guernicamag.com

• WuDunn's talk ad TED Global in July 2010