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

Early life

Sun was born in

Shanxi province Shanxi; formerly romanised as Shansi is a province in North China. Its capital and largest city of the province is Taiyuan, while its next most populated prefecture-level cities are Changzhi and Datong. Its one-character abbreviation is ( ...

in 1963. Sun received his undergraduate education at the Wuhan Water Conservancy and Electric Power College (which merged into

Wuhan University Wuhan University (WHU; 武汉大学) is a key comprehensive public university in Wuhan, Hubei, China. It is directly affiliated with and funded by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Ministry of Education of China. The un ...

in 2000) and graduated in 1981. He earned a

Master of Engineering A Master of Engineering (abbreviated MEng, ME, M.E. or M.Eng.) is a Professional degree, professional master's degree in the field of engineering. International variations Australia In Australia, the Master of Engineering degree is a research ...

from

Tsinghua University Tsinghua University (THU) is a public university in Haidian, Beijing, China. It is affiliated with and funded by the Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, and the Double First-Class Constructio ...

in 1985. Sun also attended a six-week advanced management program at

Harvard Business School Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate school, graduate business school of Harvard University, a Private university, private Ivy League research university. Located in Allston, Massachusetts, HBS owns Harvard Business Publishing, which p ...

in 2000.

Career

Sun is the chairman and majority shareholder of Sunac, the Chinese property group. In 1992, he was jailed in China following an embezzlement conviction which was later overturned. 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

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Personal life

Sun has

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, and lives in

Tianjin Tianjin is a direct-administered municipality in North China, northern China on the shore of the Bohai Sea. It is one of the National Central City, nine national central cities, with a total population of 13,866,009 inhabitants at the time of the ...

, China. He is married with two children.

References

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