Head of BlackRock China. Since joining BlackRock in 2022, Hua was the General manager for BlackRock WMC joint venture and has developed the business in close partnership with China Construction Bank and Temasek. She oversees all of our domestic China business, including our WMC and FMC, as well as BlackRock service company (BEM), Beijing Representative Office and QDLP.

She holds a wealth of onshore leadership experience and global investment expertise, after spending 20+ years in the investment industry.

Hua was most recently Chief Investment Officer (Equities) for China Merchants Bank’s wealth management subsidiary. She led the Shanghai office from 2019 and was responsible for the firm’s investment and research efforts, with emphasis on multi-asset, equity and alternatives investments. Before that, she spent 10 years at the China Investment Corporation as Head of Multi-Asset Group, Head of Fixed Income and Absolute Return Investment and Head of Asset Allocation and Strategic Research. This followed a spell as Global Head of Risk Modeling Group at Goldman Sachs in New York, where she worked in risk management and fixed-income trading for 11 years. Hua was named one of the Top 25 Most Influential Women in Asset Management by Asian Investor in 2013, and has served as a Director of the China Wealth Management 50 Forum since 2014.