Jane Jie Sun (born 1969/1970) is a Chinese businesswoman, and the CEO of the Trip.com Group, the largest online travel agency in China, since November 2016.

Early life

Sun earned a bachelor's degree in business from the

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, and master's degree in law (LLM) from Peking University's Law School.

Career

Sun worked for

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as an audit manager in

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, California for five years. Sun was the head of the SEC and external reporting division of

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from 1997 to 2005. Sun joined Ctrip (now known as the Trip.com Group) in 2005 as CFO, rising to COO in May 2012, and CEO in November 2016, when she succeeded the company's founder James Liang. In her role at Ctrip, she has been credited for her focus on

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within the company, with half of Ctrip's employees being women.

Personal life

In 1995, Sun married John Wu, one of

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's earliest employees and later, CTO of Alibaba. They have two children, and live in

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. Wu runs his own investment company, FengHe Fund Management.

References

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