Sun Hongbin (Chinese: 孙宏斌; born 1963) is a Chinese-American businessman.[1] He is the founder, chairman, and majority owner of Sunac.
Early life
Sun was born in Shanxi province in 1963.[2]
Sun received his undergraduate education at the Wuhan Water Conservancy and Electric Power College (which merged into Wuhan University in 2000) and graduated in 1981.[3] He earned a Master of Engineering from Tsinghua University in 1985. Sun also attended a six-week advanced management program at Harvard Business School in 2000.[4][2]
Career
Sun is the chairman and majority shareholder of Sunac, the Chinese property group.[5]
In 1992, he was jailed in China following an embezzlement conviction which was later overturned.[5]
In October 2017 he was ordered to do “26 hours of re-education in corporate governance” after being censured for having broken the listing rules of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.[5]
Personal life
Sun has citizenship of the United States, and lives in Tianjin, China.[4][2] He is married with two children.[2]
References
- ^ “乐视网股东大会文件披露：孙宏斌为美国国籍”. www.sohu.com. Retrieved 2022-07-12.
- ^ a b c d “Bloomberg Billionaires Index – Sun Hongbin”. Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 10 April 2018 – via www.bloomberg.com.
- ^ “孙宏斌下一步的投资逻辑-市场行情 -中国网地产”. house.china.com.cn. Retrieved 2022-07-12.
- ^ a b “Forbes profile: Sun Hongbin”. Forbes. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
- ^ a b c Ben Bland (27 October 2017). “Sunac chairman Sun Hongbin sent to re-education classes”. Financial Times. Retrieved 11 April 2018.