Michael Evans is a vice chairman of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. and global head of Growth Markets for the firm. He is a member of the Management Committee and the Client and Business Standards Committee.

Evans joined Goldman Sachs in 1993 and over the next decade held various leadership positions within the firm’s equities business while based in New York and London, including global head of Equity Capital Markets and head of the Equities Division. In 2003, he became one of four global co-heads of the FICC and Equities Divisions. In 2004, he moved to Hong Kong as chairman of Goldman Sachs Asia Pacific. Evans was named the firm’s first global head of Growth Markets in 2011. He became a partner in 1994.

Evans is chairman of the board of Right To Play USA and a board member of City Harvest. He is also a trustee of the Asia Society and a member of the Advisory Council for the Bendheim Center for Finance at Princeton University.

He earned an undergraduate degree from Princeton University in 1981 and attended Oxford University from 1982 to 1984 for his graduate studies.

Last Updated: April 3, 2014

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J. Michael Evans
“Many Chinese feel that they have not participated in the economic benefits of an economy that has been growing very rapidly,” says Michael Evans, a vice chairman of the Goldman Sachs Group and head of growth markets for the Wall Street...