NextBillion - An Initiative of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan

Jian joined +Acumen in June 2014 to build strategic partnerships and scale the reach of +Acumen courses. In this role, she creates partnership models to engage diverse stakeholders such as corporations, academic institutions, and nonprofit organizations.

Prior to Acumen, Jian was a Fixed Income Specialist at Bloomberg L.P and a member of the NY+Acumen chapter. Her earlier professional roles include marketing and free-lance journalism, and also working in Peru on monitoring and evaluation surveys and interviews with small-scale farmers.

She is a proud alum from University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she majored in International Studies and Chinese Literature.