Peter Rupert Lighte

Peter Rupert Lighte, a sinologist and founding chairman of J. P. Morgan Chase Bank China, has also taught Chinese history and philosophy, and lived abroad for almost three decades, dividing his time between London and Asia. He’s on the boards of Prudential Financial, the Council for International Educational Exchange and OneSky UK. He is the author of Straight Through The Labyrinth: Becoming A Gay Father in China, Host of Memories: Tales of Inevitable Happenstance and Pieces of China. A calligrapher, mosaicist and needlepointer, he lives in Princeton, New Jersey, with his husband Julian Grant, a distinguished Anglo-American composer, and Fuqi, their pooch from Beijing. Their daughters, both Barnard women, are now well out in the world.