I grew up in Beijing and left when I was 16 to go to high school in the US. After that, I went to Harvard and studied applied maths and economics and became very interested in international development. At first it was an academic interest and I was going to do a PhD, but I decided academia wasn’t for me. So I went to work for McKinsey for three years and did a lot of work in developing countries, with governments, NGOs and companies that were thinking of getting into new markets. There was a lot of focus on health, which was an area that really interested me.
我在北京長大，16歲離鄉前往美國讀高中。之後，我考上了哈佛大學(Harvard)，攻讀應用數學與經濟學專業，並變得對國際發展產生了濃厚的興趣。起初這只是一種學術興趣，我打算唸到博士，但我後來打定了主意，認爲自己不適合做學術，於是我進了麥肯錫(McKinsey)，在那裏工作了3年。期間我在發展中國家做了許多工作，與政府機構、非盈利組織和希望打入新市場的企業合作。這些工作中的一大側重點是醫療衛生，而這是一個真正讓我感興趣的領域。