Prof. Winston Ma, CFA & Esq., is an investor, attorney, author, and adjunct professor in the global AI-digital economy. He is a partner of Dragon Global, an AI-focused family office, and he is also the Executive Director of Global Public Investment Funds Forum (GPIFF) and an Adjunct Professor (on Sovereign Investors) at New York University (NYU) School of Law.
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. 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. 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.
Mr. Ma has served on the boards of multinational listed and private companies in tech, finance, and natural resources industries. Most recently in 2021-2024, he was the board Chairman of Nasdaq-listed MCAA, a European tech SPAC (which entered into a merger with the digital media unit of Football Club Barcelona) and, in 2022-2024, an advisory board member of Capgemini, the global IT consulting giant. In 2020-2022 he was the chairman of advisory board at Open Mineral, the first Fintech B2B metal marketplace. In 2017-2018 he was a board member of Singapore-listed Noble Group (SGX: CGP).
Formerly a nationally certified Software Programmer, Mr. Ma is the author of more than 10 books on SWF funds, digital economy, and global geopolitics, including The Hunt for Unicorns: How Sovereign Funds are Reshaping Investment in the Digital Economy and most recently “Blockchain and Web3” (among 2024 “six must-read blockchain books” by TechTarget). He has been frequently interviewed by CNBC and Bloomberg TV and quoted by major financial media including WSJ, Reuters, and Financial Times. He was selected a 2013 Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum (WEF), and in 2014 he received the NYU Distinguished Alumni Award.
