Based in Shanghai, China, Yunli is the Founder and Managing Partner of Milestone Capital Partners, a China-based private equity firm. For over twenty years, Yunli has led investments and supported leading entrepreneurs in China’s consumer, solar energy, health care, and electric vehicle sectors. Yunli began her finance career in investment banking at Goldman Sachs in the early 1990’s, and later oversaw Greater China direct Investment activities at Merrill Lynch before founding Milestone Capital.

Yunli currently serves as a founding member of Harvard University’s Global Advisory Council. For the past twelve years, she served on Milton Academy’s board of trustees in Boston, Massachusetts. Yunli previously served on the Teach for China board of directors. Modeled after Teach for America, Teach for China is a China-based non-profit organization that recruits and trains college graduates to teach in China’s poorest rural areas for two-year terms.

Born and raised in Beijing, China, Yunli received her undergraduate degree in economics from Harvard College.