Clara Wu Tsai

Clara Wu Tsai is a businesswoman, investor and founder of the Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation, where she pursues philanthropic investments across the arts, sciences, and social justice spaces. At the Foundation, she established the Social Justice Fund to work toward economic mobility and racial justice in Brooklyn, New York. She is a founding partner of the REFORM Alliance, which seeks to reform the criminal justice system.

In science and technology, the Foundation supports the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford University and the Wu Tsai Institute at Yale University for understanding human cognition. She founded the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance, which works across six universities to engage world-class talent in advancing the science of human performance.

Wu Tsai is also Governor and an owner of the WNBA's New York Liberty and, with her husband, an owner of the NBA's Brooklyn Nets. As Vice Chair of BSE Global, the teams’ parent company, Wu Tsai oversees all matters relating to fan development, civic and community engagement, and the role Barclays Center plays within Brooklyn.

She was an executive producer of "Into the Okavango," a 2018 conservation documentary; "Blue Bayou," a 2021 drama; and "Unfinished Business," a 2022 documentary about the WNBA.

Previously, Wu Tsai was General Manager of the Hong Kong operations of Taobao, China’s largest online shopping website, and a Vice President at American Express in New York and Hong Kong.

Wu Tsai is a trustee of Stanford University, New York Presbyterian Hospital, and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and on the Advisory Board for the University of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design. She holds both a bachelor's degree in International Relations and a master's in International Policy Studies from Stanford University, and an MBA from Harvard University.