Clara Wu Tsai is a businesswoman and philanthropist. Ms. Wu Tsai is the owner of the WNBA’s New York Liberty and the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets. As Vice Chair of BSE Global, the teams’ parent company, she oversees all matters relating to fan development and community engagement across Brooklyn.
Ms. Wu Tsai pursues philanthropic investments across the arts, science, and social justice spaces. She is the founder of the Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation. In the science and technology field, the foundation supports the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford University and the Wu Tsai Institute at Yale University both of which work to advance understanding of human cognition. In 2020, Ms. Wu Tsai founded the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance, which works across six universities to bring together world-class talent to advance the science of human performance.
She established the Social Justice Fund in 2020 to catalyze economic mobility in Brooklyn and is a founding partner of the REFORM Alliance, which seeks to reform the criminal justice system.
Ms. Wu Tsai serves on the Boards of Trustees for Stanford University, New York Presbyterian Hospital, and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. She serves on the Advisory Board for the Institute for Protein Design at the University of Washington. 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. She is currently producing Werner Herzog’s feature film Bucking Fastard, about inseparable sisters played by Kate and Rooney Mara.
Previously, Ms. 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. Ms. Wu Tsai holds a B.A. in International Relations, and a M.A. in International Policy Studies from Stanford University, and a M.B.A. from Harvard University.