Li Lu is the founder and Chairman of Himalaya Capital, a multi-billion-dollar investment firm where he has been managing its principal fund since 1997. Born in China, Li Lu attended Columbia University where he received his BA, JD, and MBA simultaneously. He is a Caltech trustee and served as a trustee of Columbia University from 2017 to 2024.

Among his many philanthropic pursuits, Li Lu co-founded and is a board member of The Asian American Foundation (TAAF), serving the 23 million Asian American and Pacific Islanders in their pursuit of belonging and prosperity, free from discrimination, slander and violence. He served as the Inaugural Board Chair for TAAF from 2020 to 2024.

Li Lu is the author of Civilization, Modernization, Value Investing and China and Moving the Mountain: My Life in China. He is the recipient of the Raoul Wallenberg Human Rights Award from the Congressional Human Rights Foundation, the Reebok Human Rights Award, John Jay Award from Columbia College, Distinguished Leadership Award from Columbia Business School, and the Henry Crown Leadership Award from Aspen Institute. Li Lu is a member of The Council on Foreign Relations and an Aspen Institute Henry Crown Fellow. He is an elected Fellow of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Born in China, Eva Li Lu was a tenured professor at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications until she moved to the US in 2015. She also worked at Konan University in Japan, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and City University of Hong Kong.  In 2012, she was a visiting scholar at Stanford University at the invitation of Nobel Prize laureate, Professor Myron Scholes.

Eva obtained her Ph.D. in Management Science in 2007. She is the first author or corresponding author for over forty papers published in various international academic journals.  She has presented more than fifteen papers at international conferences, three of which received Best Paper Awards.  She has written two books and co-authored five in her academic field.  She sat on the editorial board of five international journals including, among others, FIN, Advances in Information Sciences and Service Sciences and iBusiness.  Eva was the Guest Editor of International Review of Applied Financial Issues and Economics.  She served as the vice secretary and council member of the SESC Financial Systems Engineering Technical Committee. Additionally, she conducted policy research for the Chinese security industry and designed two future indices that are still in use today as well as investment funds which were based on that.

Eva has received numerous prestigious awards from Securities Association of China and academic associations for her academic and industry research work.

Eva served on the Board of Trustees of Seattle University from 2022 to 2025.