Ng, Angel Yin-yee(伍燕儀)

Biography

Angel Ng was appointed Head of Asia North and Australia, Cluster and Banking in September 2023. Angel has oversight of Citi’s franchise in Australia, China, Hong Kong, Korea, New Zealand and Taiwan, including geographic management, client coverage and delivery, and legal entity management. The Head of Cluster and Banking has oversight of products and banking segments and drives local client engagement across all lines of business.

As a leading financial institution, Citi brings the unique strength of its unparalleled global network and on-the-ground expertise to its Banking, Markets, Services, and Wealth businesses. The Asia North and Australia Cluster is a key growth area for Citi internationally, having been in the region since 1902. Angel, who is based in Hong Kong, is focused on creating greater connectivity across the bank to deliver the full power of Citi to our clients.

Prior to this, Angel was the Head of Asia for Citi Global Wealth from April 2022, with the responsibility of the wealth business in the region which includes Asia Private Bank and Consumer Banking. Before that, Angel was the Chief Executive Officer for Hong Kong and Macau from May 2018.

Angel joined Citi Hong Kong in 1998 and served as Head of Retail Banking, Head of Wealth Management and Head of Cards before being appointed Consumer Business Manager for Hong Kong in 2015, where she led the digital transformation of the business. Her knowledge and understanding of the wealth and institutional sides of the bank have helped built a winning franchise for Citi. She is also a strong advocate of diversity and inclusion.

Prior to Citi, Angel held a number of senior positions at Procter & Gamble and China Light and Power Hong Kong. She started her career with HSBC.

Angel actively contributes to the Hong Kong community by serving as a board or committee member of several organisations including the Financial Infrastructure and Market Development Sub-Committee under the Exchange Fund Advisory Committee of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the Banking Advisory Committee of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Board of Directors of the Hong Kong Science & Technology Parks Corporation, Council of the Treasury Markets Association, and Board of Trustee for the Chinese University of Hong Kong Chung Chi College.

Angel holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Teaching Areas

Business Strategy
Marketing and Consumer Behaviours

Mao, Shuguang(毛曙光)

Biography

Dr Mao was a Managing Director at GF Investments (Hong Kong), working on the Greater Bay Area Private Equity Fund of Fund. He has over twenty years of professional working experience at investment banking and asset management companies. He also worked at Citigroup, Barclays Capital, and Harvest Global Investments.

Dr Mao is very familiar with M&A, hedge fund, corporate financing, and the cross-border financial products. Dr Mao is also a leading specialist in Green Finance and familiar with the Green Bond products and related ESG products. He graduated from Nanjing University with Bachelor of Science degree and PhD degree from Stanford University.

Dr Mao is currently a Senior Business Partner at CMBC, the chairperson of TCFA Hong Kong Chapter, the Adjunct Professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), and the CEO of Guangzhou Laureates City Investment Development Limited.

Teaching Areas

Green Finance
ESG

Research Interests

Sustainable Growth
Middle East Economic Development

Kot, Hung Wan(葛鴻雲)

Biography

Dr Hung Wan Kot is a Senior Lecturer at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Business School. He obtained his PhD in Finance from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Prior to joining CUHK, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Macau. He served as the finance programme coordinator (2020-2023) in charge of the BSc in Finance and MSc in Finance programmes at the University of Macau. Dr Kot has also taught at the Hong Kong Baptist University and the University of Waikato and was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the City University of Hong Kong. 

Dr Kot has a keen interest in teaching various finance courses at the undergraduate and master levels, including Financial Management, Corporate Finance, Investments, Investments (Mandarin), Financial Markets and Institutions, Derivatives, International Finance, and Mergers and Acquisitions. He also has extensive teaching experience in master-level investment courses conducted in Putonghua in Mainland China.

Dr Kot has published more than 20 peer-reviewed articles in academic journals, including Financial Management, Financial Review, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Empirical Finance, etc. As the principal investigator, he has received three General Research Fund from the UGC of the Hong Kong government. He has also published over 60 Chinese articles in newspapers and magazines.

Teaching Areas

Financial Management
Investments
Financial Markets and Institutions

Research Interests

Short Selling
Political Uncertainty
Index Revision
Higher Moments
Hospitality and Tourism Finance

  • Publications & Working Papers

    Main publications

    • Xuelian Li, Liang Dong, Hung Wan Kot, and Ming Liu (2023), “Regulatory investigations, media coverage, and audit opinions,” Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation, forthcoming.
    • Liang Dong, Yiqing (Kevin) Dai, Tariq Haque, Hung Wan Kot, and Takeshi Yamada (2022), “Coskewness and reversal of momentum returns: The US and international evidence,” Journal of Empirical Finance 69, 241-264.
    • Wan-Qing Lv, Yi-Jie Wang, Ching-Hui (Joan) Su, Ming-Hsiang Chen, and Hung Wan Kot (2022), “A comprehensive analysis of package tour quality: A stochastic evolutionary game,” Tourism Management, 91, 104478.
    • Liang Dong, Hung Wan Kot, Keith S.K. Lam, and Morris Liu (2022), “Co-skewness and expected return: Evidence from international stock markets,” Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, 76, 101479.
    • Chunmei Liang, Ming-Hsiang Chen, Di Zhu, Hung Wan Kot, and Zhandong Yang (2022), “Nonlinear effects of board characteristics on China’s hotel performance: New evidence,” Tourism Economics, 28(8), 1998-2020.
    • Liang Dong, Hung Wan Kot, Keith S.K. Lam and Bo Yu (2022), “China vs. U.S.: Is co-skewness risk priced differently?,” Asia Pacific Journal of Accounting and Economics, 29(5), 1333-1353.
    • Adrian W.K. Cheung, Mostafa Hasan, Lidia Tunas, and Hung Wan Kot (2021), “Firm life cycle and trade credit,” Financial Review, 56(4), 743-771.
    • Ming-Hsiang Chen, Su-Jane Chen, Hung Wan Kot, Di Zhu, and Zhongjun Wu (2021), “Does gender diversity matter to Chinese hotel performance?” International Journal of Hospitality Management, 97, 102987.
    • Adrian W. K. Cheung, Hung Wan Kot, Eric F. Y. Lam and Harry K. M. Leung (2020), “Toward understanding short-selling activity: Demand and supply,” Accounting and Finance, 60(3), 2203-2230.
    • Keith S.K. Lam, Liang Dong, and Hung Wan Kot (2020), “Are higher co-moments priced? A tale of two countries,” Journal of Financial Studies, 28(1), 77-109.
    • Hung Wan Kot, Ming-Hsiang Chen, Adrian W.K. Cheung, and Haiyu Huang (2019), “Understanding short selling activity in the hospitality industry,” International Journal of Hospitality Management, 82, 136-148.
    • Fevzi Esen, Manisha Singal, Hung Wan Kot, and Ming-Hsiang Chen (2019), “Can insider trading in U.S. hospitality firms predict future returns?” International Journal of Hospitality Management, 83, 115-127.
    • Hung Wan Kot and Lewis H.K. Tam (2016), “Are stock prices more informative after dual-listing in emerging markets? Evidence from Hong Kong-listed Chinese companies,” Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 36, 31-45.
    • Hung Wan Kot, Harry K.M. Leung, and Gordon Y.N. Tang (2015), “The long-term performance of index additions and deletions: Evidence from the Hang Seng Index,” International Review of Financial Analysis, 42, 407-420.
    • Kalok Chan, Hung Wan Kot, and Gordon Y.N. Tang (2013), “A comprehensive long-term analysis of S&P 500 Index additions and deletions,” Journal of Banking & Finance, 37, 4920-4930.
    • Hung Wan Kot (2011), “Corporate name changes: Price reactions and long-run performance,” Pacific Basin Finance Journal, 19, 230-244.
    • Kalok Chan, Hung Wan Kot, and Desmond Li (2008), “Portfolio concentration and closed-end fund discounts: Evidence from the China market,” Emerging Markets Review, 9(2), 129-143.
    • Hung Wan Kot (2007), “What determines the level of short-selling activity?” Financial Management, 36(4), 123-141.
    • Abey Gunasekarage and Hung Wan Kot (2007), “Return-based investment strategies in the New Zealand stock market: Momentum wins,” Pacific Accounting Review, 19(2), 108-124.
    • Kalok Chan and Hung Wan Kot (2006), “Can contrarian strategies improve momentum profits?” Journal of Investment Management, 4(1), 70-89.

    Other Publications

    • Hung Wan Kot, Ming-Hsiang Chen, Ching-Hui (Joan) Su and Yu-Xia Lin (2022), “Tang poetry and tourism: Cultural effects after 1000 years,” Tourism Economics, in press.
    • Wenwen Zheng, Junjun Li, Yu Wang, Zhuyifan Ye, Hao Zhong, Hung Wan Kot, Defang Ouyang, and Ging Chan (2023), “Quantitative analysis for Chinese and US-listed pharmaceutical companies by the LightGBM algorithm,” Current Computer-Aided Drug Design, in press.

    Selected Working Papers

    • Hung Wan Kot, Xin Xu, and Bohui Zhang (2023), “Inspections by national leaders and local economic performance in China.”
    • Hung Wan Kot, Frank Weikai Li, Ming Liu and K.C. John Wei (2023), “Do short sellers pay attention to annual reports?”
    • Hung Wan Kot, Xin Xu and Lewis Tam (2022), “Tone management between languages.”
    • Hung Wan Kot, Liang Shao and Lewis H.K. Tam (2021), “Cross-listing and reverse cross-listing: Role of national culture.”
    • Kalok Chan, Hung Wan Kot and Sophie Ni (2017), “Does option trading affect the return predictability of short selling activity?” (Permanent)
    • Kalok Chan, Hung Wan Kot, and Zhishu Yang (2010), “Effects of short-sale constraints on stock prices and trading activity: Evidence from Hong Kong and mainland China.” (Permanent)
  • Grants
    • “Are bilingual announcements the same? Evidence from tone management in Hong Kong market, Project No: MYRG2022-00042-FBA”, Multiple Year Research Grant, 2022 awarded by University of Macau with MOP169,480 with Lewis Tam, 2023-2024 (Principal investigator)
    • “Project title: Sustainable Development of Hospitality and Gaming Tourism Industries in Macau (Research Series) – Phase 1, Project No: 30/DSESHSS-UM/2019”, Specialized Subsidy Scheme for Macao Higher Education Institutions in the Area of Research in Humanities and Social Sciences, Macau with MOP66,900 with Morris Liu, 2019 (Co-investigator)
    • “Empirical asset pricing: Short selling and others, Project No: SRG2017-00103-FBA”, Start-up Research Grant awarded by University of Macau with (MOP150,000), 2017, Duration: 36 months (Principal investigator)
    • “Does information environment change after reverse dual-listing?, Project No: 12501215”, General Research Fund awarded by Research Grants Council, Hong Kong with HK$278,000, with Lewis Tam, 2015 (Principal investigator)
    • “Long-term performance after reverse cross-listing: Evidence from Chinese and Israeli stocks, Project No: 291213”, General Research Fund awarded by Research Grants Council, Hong Kong with HK$151,973, with Lewis Tam, 2013 (Principal investigator)
    • “Short-sale constraints and A-H share premiums, Project No: 242408”, General Research Fund awarded by Research Grants Council, Hong Kong with HK$442,400 with Kalok Chan and Zhishu Yang, 2008 (Principal investigator)
    • “Changes of institutional ownership composition and pricing effects: Evidence from S&P 500 Index additions and deletions, FRG2/10-11/072”, Faculty Research Grant awarded by Hong Kong Baptist University with HK$99,000, with Kalok Chan and Gordon Y.N. Tang, 2011 (Principal investigator)
    • “Long-term performance of additions and deletions of Hang Seng Index constituent stocks, FRG/07-08/I-10”, Faculty Research Grant awarded by Hong Kong Baptist University with HK$49,700, with Gordon Y.N. Tang, 2008 (Principal investigator)
    • “The King’s new clothes? Price reaction of corporate name changes in the Hong Kong market, FRG/06-07/I-12”, Faculty Research Grant awarded by Hong Kong Baptist University with HK$42,820, 2007 (Principal investigator)
    • “What determines the short interest level”, Contestable Research Funds awarded by The University of Waikato Management School with NZ$2,800, 2005 (Principal investigator)
  • Awards & Honours
    • Top Cited Article 2021-2022 for the article: “Firm life cycle and trade credit, with Adrian W.K. Cheung, Mostafa Hasan, and Lidia Tunas,” The Financial Review
    • The top 10% of Authors on SSRN by all-time downloads, Feb 2023
    • Winner of the Ph.D. Students’ Research Paper Competition, HKUST Business School, 2003
    • FMA Doctoral Student Consortium, Denver, 2003
    • D. Student Travel Award, AFA annual meeting in Washington D.C., 2003
    • Research Travel Grant, HKUST, 2002 and 2003
    • Full postgraduate fellowship, HKUST Business School, 1999-2004
    • Finalist for Citibank University Marketing Award, Citibank (Hong Kong), 1997
    • The China and South Sea Bank Ltd. Scholarship, HKBU, 1997
  • Academic/Professional Services

    PhD Thesis Supervision (University of Macau)

    • Xin Xu (Supervisor, from August 2020)
    • Jiang Yu (advisory committee of PhD thesis, 2022. Placement: City University of Macau)

    Ad hoc Reviewer

    • Accounting and Finance
    • African Journal of Business Management
    • Afro-Asian Journal of Finance and Accounting
    • Asian-Pacific Journal of Accounting and Economics
    • Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies
    • Australian Journal of Management
    • China Finance Review International
    • Contemporary Accounting Research
    • Emerging Market Finance and Trade
    • International Economics
    • International Journal of Hospitality Management
    • International Review of Economics & Finance
    • International Review of Finance
    • Investment Analysts Journal
    • Journal of Business Ethics
    • Journal of Business Finance & Accounting
    • Journal of Corporate Finance
    • Journal of Economics and Business
    • Journal of Empirical Finance
    • Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
    • Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management
    • Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money
    • Journal of Multinational Financial Management
    • Managerial Finance
    • Pacific Accounting Review
    • Pacific Basin Finance Journal
    • Review of Behavioral Finance
    • Review of Law & Economics
    • Review of Futures Markets
    • Review of Quantitative Finance & Accounting

    External/Program/Subject Reviewer

    • Banking and Financial Services, Open University of Hong Kong, Sep 2017-Mar 2022
    • Hong Kong Nang Yan College of Higher Education, Sep 2015-Aug 2019
    • Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong SAR, May 2018, May 2020
    • Postgraduate Diploma in Financial Markets and Portfolio Management, HKU School of Professional and Continuing Education, Dec 2013-Sep 2016
    • Program committee, Asian Finance Association annual meeting in Changsha, China, 2015
    • The World Business Ethics Forum, 2012 and 2014
    • Finance Research Centre, Fudan University, May 2012
    • Master of Business, Auckland University of Technology, Sep 2006
    • DBA thesis, University of South Australia, Aug 2008
    • Master of Science in Finance, University of Macau, May 2017

    Service at University of Macau/School of Business

    • Member, Honors College interview for FBA applicants, 2017-2018
    • Member, Principal’s Recommendation Admission to the bachelor’s degree programmes, 2017-2018
    • Members, MSc Finance admission interview, 2017-2018, 2018-2019, 2019-2020
    • Member, MSc in Finance Programme Management Committee, 2019-2020

    Service at HKBU/School of Business

    • Seminar co-ordinator, Department of Finance and Decision Sciences, 2008-2015
    • Member, PMC of BCom (Accountancy) Programme, 2010-2016
    • Research fellow, Chinese Businesses Case Centre, 2015-2016
    • Member, Internationalization Advisory Group, School of Business, 2015-2016
    • Member, BBA student-staff consultative committee, 2014-2016
    • Member, joined “BUS panel and project posters” and “meeting with junior faculty members” during Research Grants Council’s visit to HKBU, 2011
    • Member, joined “meeting junior faculty staff” during AACSB Peer Review Team visit, 2010
    • Member, PMC of BCom (Marketing) Programme, 2009
    • Member, QAC audit for BBA-Finance Programme, 2009

Tang, Nai-pan(鄧鼐斌)

Biography

Prof. Nai-pan Tang (NP) is Professor of Practice in Finance. He served for three decades in banking after teaching as Assistant Professor in Finance at the Chinese University of HK (CUHK) and at McGill University. In banking, NP has taken management roles in Treasury, Global markets and Risk Management in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Singapore.

Before rejoining CUHK, NP’s was Director of the Board, Deputy CEO, Alternative CEO, Chief Risk Officer (CRO), and Vice Chairman of Asset Management at China CITIC Bank International. In the past decade, he served as Deputy CEO’s, CRO’s and board member in various banks in Hong Kong and Mainland China.

In public service, NP served as director and executive committee member in the HK Institute of Bankers (HKIB), chaired “Economic and Financial Market Research Committee” in the Chinese Banking Association of HK, and he is a board member of the Financial Dispute Resolution Center. He was named “Honorary Certified Banker” by HKIB in 2022.

NP’s previous research was in Derivatives Pricing and Econometrics. In banking, he has worked on quantitative applications in derivatives and risk management, and his current interests are in China offshore markets and risk management.

NP aims to combine theoretical concepts and practice experiences to share with students.

Teaching Areas

Corporate Finance
Investment
Capital Markets and Financial Instruments
Management of Financial Institutions
Risk Management

Research Interests

China Offshore Markets
Risk Management

  • Academic/Professional Services
    • Member, Finance Committee, HK Arts Center 2020-present
    • Director, Financial Dispute and Resolution Center, 2022-present
    • Chair, “Economic and Financial Market Research Committee”, Chinese Banking Association of HK, 2021-2023
    • Executive Committee Member, HKIB 2019-2022
    • Director, HKIB, 2019-2022

Tseng, Kevin(曾俊凱)

Biography

Professor Kevin Tseng is an Associate Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Business School. He previously taught at the National Taiwan University (NTU) as the EMBA Alumni Elite Chair and the Chen-Yung Outstanding Scholar. Before joining NTU, he was a Financial Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond and an Assistant Professor at the University of Kansas’ School of Business.

Professor Tseng has a broad research interest. He has published in the areas of knowledge spillover, asset pricing, disclosure, innovation, corporate finance, and behavioral economics. His articles have appeared in leading scholarly journals, including The Journal of Finance, the Journal of Accounting and Economics, Review of Financial Studies, The Accounting Review, Management Science, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Contemporary Accounting Research, and the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy. In 2022, he received the MOST Outstanding Research Award; in 2015, he received the WFA Cubist Systematic Strategies PhD Candidate Award for Outstanding Research.

Teaching Areas

Valuation
Financial Statement Analysis

Research Interests

Information Disclosure
Asset Pricing
Innovation
Corporate Finance
Behavioral Economics

  • Awards & Honours
    • MOST Outstanding Research Award, 2022
    • Early-Career Investigator Research Achievement Award, Academia Sinica, 2022
    • Young Researcher Award, Taiwan Econometrics Society, 2022
    • Young Researcher Award, Taiwan Risk and Insurance Association, 2022
    • E. Sun Academic Award, E.SUN FHC & National Taiwan University, 2021-2023
    • Best Paper Award, TFA Annual Meeting, 2018, 2020-2022
    • Best Paper Award, Management and Practice Conference, 2021
    • Chen-Yung Outstanding Scholar, National Taiwan University, 2020
    • EMBA Alumni Elite Chair, National Taiwan University, 2020
    • Best Paper Award Semifinalist, Financial Management Association (FMA) Annual Meeting, 2018-2019, 2023 (*2)
    • Best Paper Award, Asian Finance Association (Asian FA), 2016
    • Ph.D. Candidate Award for Outstanding Research, Western Finance Association (WFA), 2015
    • PhD Forum Best Paper Award Second Prize, Australasian Finance and Banking Conference (AFBC), 2014
  • Academic/Professional Services
    • Ad-Hoc Referee, Review of Financial Studies, Management Science, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Contemporary Accounting Research, Research Policy, Review of Corporate Finance Studies, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Empirical Finance
    • Organising Committee, 2019 TFA Asset Pricing
    • Programme Committee, Northern Finance Association (NFA), Financial Management Association (FMA), Financial Management Association Asia/Pacific (FMA Asia), Southern Finance Association (SFA)

Whelan, Paul

Biography

Professor Paul Whelan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Finance. Before joining CUHK in 2023, he was an Associate Professor of Finance at the Copenhagen Business School (CBS). He received his PhD degree in Financial Economics from Imperial College London.

Prof. Whelan’s papers have been published in the Journal of FinanceJournal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, and Management Science, and has won several awards for his research.

Teaching Areas

Financial Economics
Financial Mathematics
Asset Pricing
Derivative Markets

Research Interests

Prof. Whelan’s research focuses on two distinct subfields:

  • Asset pricing and belief formation
  • Market microstructure
  • Publications & Working Papers

    Published Papers

    • Paul Whelan, Ingomar Krohn and Philippe Mueller, “Foreign Exchange Returns and Fixings Around the Clock,” Journal of Finance, forthcoming.
    • Paul Whelan, Nina Boyarchenko and Lars Larsen (2022), “The Overnight Drift,” Review of Financial Studies.
    • Paul Whelan, Andrea Buraschi and Ilaria Piatti (2021), “Subjective Bond Returns and Belief Aggregation,” Review of Financial Studies.
    • Paul Whelan, Matteo Leombroni, Andrea Vedolin and Gyuri Venter (2021), “Central Bank Communication and the Yield Curve,” Journal of Financial Economics.
    • Paul Whelan and Andrea Buraschi (2020), “Speculation, Sentiment, and Interest Rates,” Management Science.
    • Paul Whelan and Andrea Buraschi (2016), “Bond Markets and Conventional Monetary Policy,” ‘Handbook of Fixed Income’ edited by Pietro Veronesi.
    • Paul Whelan and Andrea Buraschi (2016), Bond Markets and Unconventional Monetary Policy,” ‘Handbook of Fixed Income’ edited by Pietro Veronesi.

    Working Papers

    • Paul Whelan, Daniel Pesch and Ilaria Piatti, “Subjective Risk Premia in Bond and FX Markets”
    • Paul Whelan and Carsten Sørensen, “Money as Options”
    • Paul Whelan, Nina Boyarchenko, Lars Larsen and Gyuri Venter, “Demand Shock Asymmetry”
  • Awards & Grants
    • INQUIRE Europe Grant: Central Bank Shocks, 2022.
    • Canadian Derivatives Institute Annual Research Grant: Foreign Exchange Returns and Fixings Around the Clocks
    • Danish Research Council DFF-grant 1: principle early stage researcher, 2018.
    • Danish Research Council DFF-grant 1: early stage researcher joint with Gyuri Venter, 2018.
    • SFS Asian Cavalcade Beijing Best Paper Award: Subjective Bond Returns and Belief Aggrega-tion, 2017.
    • CICF Xiamen Best Paper Award: Subjective Bond Returns and Belief Aggregation, 2016.
    • Best PhD Thesis Imperial College London, 2015.
    • GARP Risk Management Research Award, 2013.
    • Winner Q-Group Grant Award: Speculation, Sentiment, and Interest Rates, 2012.
    • AFA Doctoral Student Travel Grant, 2012.

Su, Yang(蘇陽)

Biography

Prof. Su is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Chinese University of Hong Kong Business School.

His main research interests include public finance, real estate, banking and Chinese financial markets. In his current research agenda, he focuses on municipal finance and the interactions between government financing behaviors, real estate market and the real economy. Prof. Su is also interested in the information and moral hazard issues in the banking industry.

Teaching Areas

Derivatives

Research Interests

Municipal Finance
Real Estate
Banking
Chinese Financial Markets

  • Awards & Honours
    • Bradley Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2023
    • Liew Fama-Miller Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2020&2019
    • Gold Medal in the 51 China Mathematics Olympics, China, 2010

Luo, Dan(羅丹)

Biography

Prof. Luo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Finance at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Business School. Before joining CUHK in 2023, he was a postdoc researcher at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He received his PhD degree in Finance from Stanford Graduate School of Business, and Master in Economics and Bachelor of Economics degrees from Tsinghua University. His primary research interests are corporate finance, microeconomic theory, and China economy.

Teaching Areas

Finance

Research Interests

Corporate Finance
Microeconomic Theory
China Economy

  • Awards & Honours
    • Charles River Associates Award For the Best Paper on Corporate Finance, the Western Finance Association, 2023
    • Best Research Paper Award in Finance , Research Symposium on Finance and Economics, 2023
    • “Best paper in finance theory on the job market” first prize, the Finance Theory Group (FTG), 2022
    • The Brattle Group PhD Candidate Awards for Outstanding Research, the Western Finance Association, 2022

Jeung, Jinoug(鄭鎮旭)

Biography

Prof. Jinoug Jeung is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Finance at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Business School. He received his PhD in Finance from Emory University, MS in Finance from Seoul National University, and BS in Mathematics and Economics from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). His research focuses on banking, FinTech, and household/public finance.

Teaching Areas

Financial Markets

Research Interests

Banking
Fintech
Household Finance
Public Finance

Huang, Guo-bo(黃國波)

Biography

  • Chief Investment Officer of CNIC Corporation Limited since 2017, responsible for its global M&A investments.
  • Director General and head of State Administration of Foreign Exchange of China (SAFE) Reserve Management Department during 2002-2016, responsible for global asset allocation, investment operations and risk management of China’s foreign reserves.
  • Chief Economist and Vice Chairman of investment committee of SAFE concurrently during 2008-2016.
  • Substantiated professor of the City University of Hong Kong, senior fellow of the Asian-Pacific Financial and Forecasting Research Centre, and coordinator of EF Department’s undergraduate and postgraduate programmes before 2000.
  • PhD from the University of Birmingham in the UK , Master degree from the PBCSF of Tsinghua University, and Bachelor degree from Peking University.

Teaching Areas and Research Interest

Global Asset Allocation and Management
Investments
Alternative Investments
Mergers and Acquisitions
Multinational Financial Management
Central Banking
International Financial Institutions and Markets
Exchange Rate Determination and Risk Management
Money, Banking and Investments in China

  • Academic/Professional Services
    • Member, Advisory Investment Committee, Bank of Thailand, 2018-present
    • Expatriate finance expert, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of China, 2000-present
    • Adjunct professor, the PBCSF Finance College, Tsinghua University, China, 2000-present