Liu Qing (businesswoman)
Liu Qing (Chinese: 柳青; pinyin: Liǔ Qīng, born 1978 in Beijing) or Jean Liu, is a Chinese business executive. Jean is the President of Didi Chuxing ("DiDi", formerly known as Didi Kuaidi), China's largest mobile transportation platform. She worked at Goldman Sachs Asia for 12 years, becoming Managing Director for Asia in 2012, before switching to Didi Dache serving as its chief operating officer in July 2014.
After joining Didi Dache, she led the strategic merger between Didi Dache and its main competitor Kuaidi Dache which then created a new car hailing company named Didi Kuaidi (later rebranded as Didi Chuxing) in 2015. She also helped DiDi win the $1billion investment from Apple and masterminded DiDi's acquisition of Uber China in 2016.
In 2016, Jean was selected by Fast Company as one of "the World's Most Creative People in Business." She was named to Fortune's international list of 2016 Most Powerful Women. She was also ranked alongside Cheng Wei, CEO of DiDi, on The Wired 100 List.
Jean was one of Fortune's 2015 Global "40 Under 40" Business Leaders, and tops Fortune China's "40 Under 40" Business Leaders list together with Cheng Wei. In the same year, Jean was named one of China’s "25 Most Influential Business Women" by Fortune, and one of China’s "Most Influential Women" by Women in China. She was also named one of China’s "Top Women Business Leaders" in 2013 and 2015 by the China Entrepreneurial Magazine.
Jean was born in 1978 in Beijing, China. She is the daughter of Chinese businessman and Lenovo founder Liu Chuanzhi, and the granddaughter of Liu Gushu, a senior executive banker at the Bank of China. She received a bachelor's degree in Computer Science at Peking University, and a master's degree in Computer Science at Harvard University.
After completing her master's at Harvard, Jean joined Goldman Sachs in 2002 as a junior analyst. For 12 years, from 2002 to 2014, she worked her way up to become one of the youngest managing directors in the bank’s history.
When Jean joined Didi Dache in 2014, the firm was in fierce and expensive competition with rival Kuaidi Dache. Together with Cheng Wei, Jean masterminded the company's fundraising and its merger with Kuaidi Dache.
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