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Wenli Yuan

Senior Analyst, Asia Research Group

Wenli Yuan is a senior analyst in Celent's Asia Research group and is based in Hong Kong. Ms.Yuan’s area of expertise lies in the financial services industry in China, including insurance e-business, insurance distribution and service, banking, and securities. She is a leading analyst on insurance business and technology strategy in Asia and the author of many of Celent's reports on China insurance, banking, and securities. Her research covers China insurance PAS vendor evaluation, insurance e-business, corporate banking, core banking, ATM, and equities market trends.Ms. Yuan’s comments on China financialand technology topics have appeared inWall Street and Technology, The Banker, American Banker, China Economic Review, gtnews, Business Line, CardLine Global, and South China Morning Post. She is a frequent presenter at industry events, includingLOMA International Underwriting Congress, Insurance Executives’ Summit onTechnology, Workshop on Expanding Access to Insurance for the Poor.Prior to joining Celent, Ms. Yuan worked as a business analyst in the insurance department of Hisun Tech and Global InfoTech successively. In these roles, she analyzed information technology requirements in the China market and researched insurance systems provided by international vendors. She was also responsible for managing the firm's relations with international IT vendors, including product delivery.Previously, Ms. Yuan worked in the e-business department of Taikang Life Insurance Company. She was responsible for planning and implementing agent service and policy-owner service through the Web, as well as the design of the online insurance purchase process. Prior to this position, Ms. Yuan worked in Taikang Life's sales department, obtaining her FLMI qualifications from LOMA during this period.Ms. Yuan received her BS from Peking University.