Anla Cheng

Anla Cheng is the Founder and CEO of The China Project (formerly SupChina), an independent digital China news, business, events, consulting marketplace platform and podcasts. The China Project informs and connects a global audience regarding the business, technology, politics, culture and society of China.

Prior to this, Ms. Cheng ran a Family Office of Asian Hedge Fund of Funds, Centenium Capital. Her career included work as Asia Head, SVP at Robert Fleming, (bought out by JP Morgan). Her career began at Goldman Sachs, then Citi where she was a Pacific Basin analyst, then became an Asian Portfolio Manager for both Institutional and Private Wealth Group.

Ms. Cheng received her MBA from the Wharton Graduate School of Business. She is a Trustee of the following Boards: Vice-Chair of China/US at TNC (The Nature Conservancy); Facing History and Ourselves(past Chair of China Project); Vice-Chair at China Institute; and past Trustee and current member of Committee 100. Ms. Cheng is also China/ Global Council Member of Brookings and a Member of NCUSCR and Columbia University's China Global Center.

Join her at our Lifetime Achievement Award & Dinner Ceremony in New York City on Day 2 of the NEXTChina Conference, where she will be making opening remarks and introducing our program of exclusive conversations in the U.S.-China sphere.