Sun Hongbin (Chinese: 孙宏斌; born 1963) is a Chinese-American businessman.[1] He is the founder, chairman, and majority owner of Sunac.

Sun Hongbin
Born1963 (age 60–61)
CitizenshipUnited States
EducationWuhan Water Conservancy and Electric Power College (UG)
Tsinghua University (MEng)
OccupationBusinessman
Known forFounder, chairman and majority owner of Sunac
SpouseMarried
Children2

Early life

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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

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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

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Sun has Citizenship of the United States, and lives in Tianjin, China.[4][2] He is married with two children.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "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.
  2. ^ a b c d "Bloomberg Billionaires Index - Sun Hongbin". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 10 April 2018 – via www.bloomberg.com.
  3. ^ "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.
  4. ^ a b "Forbes profile: Sun Hongbin". Forbes. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
  5. ^ a b c Ben Bland (27 October 2017). "Sunac chairman Sun Hongbin sent to re-education classes". Financial Times. Retrieved 11 April 2018.