Winston Wenyan Ma, CFA & Esq.
Author of The Hunt for Unicorns and The Digital War 
former Managing Director of CIC Adjunct Professor, NYU School of Law
Winston Ma 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. 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.
At CIC’s inception in 2007, he was among the first group of overseas hires by CIC, where he was a founding member of both CIC’s Private Equity Department and later the Special Investment Department for direct investing (Head of CIC North America office 2014-2015).  He had leadership roles in global investments involving financial services, technology (TMT), energy and natural resources sectors, including the setup of West Summit (Huashan) Capital, a cross-border growth capital fund in Silicon Valley, which was CIC’s first overseas tech investment.
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.
A nationally certified Software Programmer as early as 1994, Mr. Ma is the book author of China's Mobile Economy (Wiley 2016, among “best 2016 business books for CIOs”), Digital Economy 2.0 (2017 Chinese), The Digital Silk Road (2018 German), China’s AI Big Bang (2019 Japanese), and Investing in China (Risk Books, 2006). His new books are “The Hunt for Unicorns: How Sovereign Funds Are Reshaping Investment in the Digital Economy” (Wiley October 2020) and “The Digital War - How China’s Tech Power Shapes the Future of AI, Blockchain, and Cyberspace” (Wiley January 2020).
Mr. Ma has served on the boards of multinational listed and private companies. He is currently on the advisory board of Open Mineral and Global SWF. He was selected a 2013 Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum (WEF) and has been a member of the Council for Long-Term Investing and Council for Digital Economy and Society.
Mr. Ma earned his MBA from the University of Michigan Ross Business School (Beta Gamma Sigma) and his master of law from the New York University School of Law (Hauser Global Scholar). He earned bachelor of science and bachelor of law degrees from Fudan University in Shanghai, China. He is an adjunct professor at NYU School of Law (current course “Sovereign Investments & Regulations”) and a member of New York University (NYU) President’s Global Council since inception. In 2014 he received the NYU Distinguished Alumni Award.
 
马文彦 CFA & Esq.  前中投公司董事总经理，美国纽约大学兼任教授
英文作者：《中国移动互联网经济》，《狩猎科技独角兽》，《数字战争》
马文彦是跨境数字经济的投资人、金融律师、专著作家和兼任教授。 在国家主权财富基金中投公司成立之初 (2008年)从纽约华尔街回国，作为中投公司第一批海外招聘的投资主管人员, 马文彦先后是私募基金部门和海外直接投资部门的主要创始人员，担任董事总经理10年间，负责了近二百亿美元的金融、能源矿业和高科技行业的诸多投资项目。作为项目负责人在中投成立早期（2009年），于硅谷设立华山资本高科技投资平台，是中投公司第一次涉足海外科技投资领域。
在2011-2015年作为第一个外派董事总经理至中投多伦多代表处（唯一海外机构），专注北美地区的直接投资和私募基金合作。此前在纽约华尔街，担任过英国巴克莱银行（纽约）的北美股权市场部副主管，摩根大通銀行纽约总部的资本市场部副总裁, 达维律师事务所纽约总部证券律师，是少数兼有中、美投资金融市场和法律背景的中国专业人士。
早在1994年就获国家软件程序员证书，先后英文专著出版《中国移动互联网经济》（Wiley出版社，国际首席信息官网站选为 2016 年最佳商业书籍之一）、中文版《数字经济2.0》（江苏省委读书小组推荐2017年12本好书之一）、德文/英文出版《数字丝绸之路》(2018年)、日文出版《中国AI创新经济》(2019年)，以及英文出版《投资中国》(2006 年)。在2020年由 Wiley英文出版两本新书《狩猎科技独角兽：主权投资基金如何改变数字经济风投》，和以中美科技战争为主要视角的《数字战争 -中国科技塑造未来的AI、区块链和网络空间》。
马文彦曾在国际上市公司和私有企业中担任董事。2013年获达沃斯世界经济论坛的年度 “全球青年领袖” 荣誉，至今先后担任达沃斯长期投资理事会和数字经济理事会理事。
美国密西根大学Ross商学院工商管理硕士（MBA 2001级，最优等毕业）, NYU纽约大学法学院国际比较法硕士（LLM 1997级，当年Hauser奖学金获奖者）, 复旦大学电子材料理学士（1990 级）,复旦法学院国际经济法双学士（1995 研究生级）。曾先后担任美国纽约大学法学院（当前授课“主权财富基金投资与法律监管”）、Stern商学院兼任教授和清华经管学院客座教授。在NYU校长国际事务理事会2013年成立以来长期担任理事，并2014年获纽约大学当年全球杰出校友奖。