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Erica Fung is a senior vice president of D. E. Shaw & Co. (Asia Pacific) Limited and Chief Legal and Compliance Officer for the Asia-Pacific region for the D. E. Shaw group operating from the firm’s Hong Kong office. Prior to joining the firm in 2016, Ms. Fung served as legal counsel and chief compliance officer in the Asia-Pacific region for KKR. Before that, she was an associate at Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett LLP, where she worked on a range of transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, debt and equity offerings, and other corporate transactions. Ms. Fung began her career as a financial analyst in the fixed income, currencies, and commodities division of Goldman, Sachs & Co. She earned her B.S. in economics, summa cum laude, from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School.