Portrait of Anna Sun, leadership advisor at Russell Reynolds Associates

Anna Sun

Anna partners with leading financial institutions and multilateral organizations to address their most complex executive hiring and leadership advisory needs across Asia.

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Anna Sun is a key member of our APAC Financial Services and China Business Account team. She brings over a decade of experience in C-suite and board-level search, with deep expertise across asset and wealth management, insurance, banking, private capital, and development finance.

Anna has a proven track record of recruiting bilingual and bi-cultural leaders for multinational financial institutions. She is particularly skilled at identifying talent for roles requiring navigation of cross-market, multi-regulatory, and culturally complex environments. Her expertise is firmly rooted in China and enhanced by broad regional experience.

Having lived and worked in Beijing, Shanghai, Singapore, and the UK, Anna brings a global perspective anchored in deep local insight—enabling her to effectively support both local and pan-regional mandates, particularly in joint ventures, emerging markets, and new business setup contexts.

Before joining Russell Reynolds Associates, Anna was an Associate Director at a leading Asia-focused financial services executive search firm. She began her career at a London-based boutique specializing in the Asian financial sector.

She holds a BA in Business Administration from Heilongjiang University and a Master’s in Project Management from the University of Warwick.
She is fluent in English and Mandarin.
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Areas of Expertise

Assessment and Benchmarking Board Director and Chair Search Executive Search Financial Services

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