Fred Hu
Fred Hu has been the Chairman and CEO of Primavera Capital since he founded the firm in 2010. Prior to that he was a partner and Chairman of Greater China at Goldman Sachs. He is currently Chairman of the Board of Yum China Holdings Inc., and serves on the Board of Directors of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and UBS Group AG. He is also a member of the The Nature Conservancy’s Global Board of Directors and the co-chair of its Asia Pacific Council, a trustee of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), a member of the Global Advisory Board of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Jerome A. Chazen Institute of International Business at Columbia University, Dean’s Leadership Council at Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard University’s Global Advisory Council. He was previously co-director of the National Center for Economic Research and a professor at Tsinghua University, and also served at the International Monetary Fund, on the Hong Kong Government’s Strategic Development Committee, and the Advisory Committee for the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission. Fred holds a doctoral degree in economics from Harvard University.
The Salata Institute
The Salata Institute supports interdisciplinary research that leads to real-world action, including high-risk/high-reward projects by researchers already working in the climate area and new endeavors that make it easier for Harvard scholars, who have not worked on climate problems, to do so. Faculty interested in the Climate Research Clusters program should note an upcoming deadline for concepts on April 1, 2024.