Our Faculty

Our faculty at the Division of Banking and Finance conducts state-of-the-art research in several areas of finance and actuarial science. Areas of expertise include banking, corporate governance, behavioral finance, social finance, sustainable and green finance, fintech, risk management, actuarial science, and (re)insurance.
Jun-Koo KANG
 

Head, Division of Banking and Finance
Professor
Canon Professorship of Finance

Expertise: Corporate Finance and International Finance (particularly mergers and acquisitions); Corporate Governance; ESG; Capital Raising; International Portfolio Allocation; Banking

Office: ABS-06-115
Angie Low
 
Deputy Head, Division of Banking and Finance

Associate Professor

Expertise: Corporate Governance; Managerial Compensation; Corporate Culture; Corporate Social Responsibility; Social Finance

Office: ABS-06-035 
Low Buen Sin
 
Associate Dean (China Programmes and Executive Education) 

Professor (Practice)

Expertise: Business Valuation; Derivative Securities; CSR

Office: ABS-06-128 
Chang Xin
 

Associate Dean (Research)
Professor of Finance

Expertise: Corporate Finance; Corporate Innovation; Corporate Social Responsibilities; Climate Finance; Green Finance

Office: ABS-06-122
Charlie Charoenwong
 

Associate Professor 

Expertise: Market Microstructure; Market Efficiency; Investments

Office: ABS-06-045
Tao Chen
 

Associate Professor 

Expertise: Corporate Finance; ESG; FinTech

Office: ABS-06-106

Chong Beng Soon
 

Associate Professor 

Expertise: Corporate Finance; Banking

Office: ABS-06-112
Matthew DEARTH
 

Associate Professor (Practice)

Expertise: Sustainable Finance; Alternative Investments

Office: ABS-06-036
AP Deng Xin

Associate Professor (Practice)

Expertise: Fintech; Corporate Finance

Office: ABS-06-107
Byoung-Hyoun Hwang
 

Associate Professor 

Expertise: Behavioral Finance; Social Finance

Office: ABS-06-116

Yougesh Khatri
 

Associate Professor (Practice)

Expertise: Global Macroeconomics and Finance; Economic Development and Public Policy; Long-Term Asset Management

Office: ABS-06-033
LAU Sie Ting
 

Associate Professor

Expertise: International Financial Markets

Office: ABS-06-119
Lee Boon Keng
 

Director, CAFE and CEIT
Associate Professor (Practice)

Expertise: Global Financial Markets; Monetary Policy; Asset and Wealth Management

Office: ABS-06-094
Luo Jiang
 

Associate Professor 

Expertise: Investor Psychology; Asset Pricing; Financial Markets

Office: ABS-06-105 
Ru Hong
 

Associate Professor 

Expertise: Corporate Finance; Sustainable Finance; Household Finance; Chinese Economy

Office: ABS-06-034
Dawoon Kim
 

Assistant Professor 

Expertise: Corporate Finance; Corporate Governance

Office: ABS-06-043
Asst Prof Kate Park
 

Assistant Professor 

Expertise: Investments; Asset Management; SRI/ESG; Empirical Corporate Finance

Office: ABS-06-117
Asst Prof Varun Sharma
 

Assistant Professor 

Expertise: Financial Intermediation; Empirical Asset Pricing; Climate Finance; Insurance

Office: ABS-06-092
Wang Xin
 

Assistant Professor 

Expertise: Market Microstructure; Financial Intermediation; Macro-Finance; FinTech

Office: ABS-06-104
Zhu Qifei
 

Assistant Professor 

Expertise: Investment Management; Institutional Investors; Corporate Finance

Office: ABS-06-037
Nick ORLIC
 

Senior Lecturer

Expertise: Corporate Governance; Information Frictions; Agency Issues; Mergers and Acquisitions

Office: ABS-06-049
Ernie TEO
 

Senior Lecturer

Expertise: Blockchain; Fintech; Game Theory; Cryptocurrencies; CBDCs; Digital Asset Tokenization

Office: ABS-06-095
Shinichi Kamiya
 

Associate Professor 

Expertise: Demand for Catastrophe Insurance and Corporate Risk Taking; Risk Management

Office: ABS-06-047
Wu Yuan
 

Associate Professor 

Expertise: Actuarial Science; Big Data and Data Mining; Application of Statistics to Business and Finance; Traffic Accidents Analysis

Office: ABS-06-051 
Zhu Wenjun
 

Associate Professor 

Expertise: Systemic Risks in Finance and Insurance; Predictive Analytics; Weather Risk Management and Agricultural Insurance; High Dimensional Modeling with Copulas; Longevity Risk Management

Office: ABS-06-113
Asst Prof Wei Pengyu
 

Assistant Professor 

Expertise: Actuarial Science; Insurance Economics; Quantitative Finance; Risk Management

Office: ABS-06-103
Zhang Jinggong
 

Assistant Professor 

Expertise: Time-Consistent Planning; Stochastic Optimal Control; Longevity Risk Management; Agricultural Insurance

Office: ABS-06-048
Ciyu NIE
 

Lecturer

Expertise: Cyber Risk Modelling; Ruin Theory; Data Modelling; Longevity Modelling; Risk Analytics

Office: ABS-06-050
Ho Kim Wai
 

Emeritus Associate Professor

Expertise: Corporate Finance; Corporate Governance; Mergers and Acquisitions; Financial Modelling and Business Valuation

Office: ABS-06-091
Thomas CHHOA
 

Adjunct Associate Professor

Expertise: Sustainability in Energy and Chemicals

Email: [email protected]

 

Professor Zhiguo He
Professor of Finance
University of Chicago

Period of Visit: 25 to 29 March 2019 

Professor Neng Wang
Chong Khoon Lin Professor of Real Estate and Finance
Columbia University

Period of Visit: 10 to 15 August 2018 and 16 to 26 Jul 2016

Professor Harrison Hong
John R. Eckel Jr. Professor of Financial Economics
Department of Economics
Columbia University

Period of Visit:  3 to 7 July 2017

Professor Paul H. Malatesta
Managing Editor - Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
Norman J. Metcalfe Faculty Fellow and Professor of Finance
University of Washington, Seattle

Period of Visit:  27 Nov to 1 Dec 2017, Dec 2016; Jun 2012 and Oct to Nov 2005

Professor Jarrad Harford
Paul Pigott - PACCAR Professor of Finance and Chair of the Finance and Business Economics Department
University of Washington

Period of Visit:  Nov to Dec 2016

Professor Sheridan Titman
Walter W. McAllister Centennial Chair in Financial Services and Professor of Finance
University of Texas at Austin

Period of visit: 27 May to 3 Jun 2016 and 13 to 20 Jul 2010

Professor Avanidhar Subrahmanyam
University of California, Los Angeles

Period of visit:  17 to 19 Mar 2016 and 1 to 5 Feb 2016​

Professor Susheng Wang
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

Period of Visit:  10 to 29 Aug 2015

Professor Richard Roll
Joel Fried Chair in Applied Finance
Anderson School of Management
University of California, Los Angeles

Period of visit:  Jun 2014​

Professor Ralph Walkling
Faculty of Finance
Drexel University 

Period of Visit:  Nov 2013

Professor David Hirshleifer
Merage Chair in Business Growth and Professor of Finance
University of California at Irvine

Period of Visit: Jun 2011; Jun to Jul 2010; Aug to Sep 2009; Aug 2008

Professor Rajesh Aggarwal
University of Minnesota

Period of Visit: 16 to 22 Jul 2010

Professor Scott Weisbenner
James F. Towey Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor of Finance
University of Illinois

Period of Visit: Mar & Jul 2010

2023

NIE Ciyu
NBS Teaching Excellence Award
LUO JiangNBS Research Excellence Award
  
   

2022

Charlie CHAROENWONG
Teacher of the Year Awards for Master of Science in Asset and Wealth Management
Tao CHEN, JonasNBS Research Excellence Award
Tao CHEN, JonasBest Paper Award, Maritime Silk Road Accounting and Finance Meeting
Tao CHEN, JonasBest Paper Award, IAS Midyear Meeting of the American Accounting Association (AAA)
  
   

2021

Jun-Koo KANG
Sangnam Business Scholar Award, The Korea Academic Society of Business Administration (the highest distinction made by the KASBA to recognize an outstanding scholar in all fields of business)
Jun-Koo KANG
Ranked among the top two percent of the world's most highly cited researchers (1996 to 2019), Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford University
Angie LOW An Chee
NBS Teaching Excellence Award
Tao CHEN, JonasNanyang Education Award
Tao CHEN, JonasNominee for the Nanyang Research Award (Young Investigator)
Tao CHEN, JonasExcellence in Reviewing Award, American Accounting Association (AAA) Annual Meeting
ZHU QifeiMoskowitz Prize
ZHU Wenjun 
Nominee for NBS Business Teacher of the Year Award
  
   

2020

Angie LOW An Chee
Best Reviewer Award Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies
Xin CHANG, Simba
Best PhD Supervisor Award, Graduate College Mentoring Award, Nanyang Technological University
HO Kim Wai 
Teacher of the Year Award (MSc Asset and Wealth Management Programme) 
LOW Buen Sin 
Teacher of the Year Award (MSc Finance Programme) 
Tao CHEN, Jonas
Nominee for the Nanyang Education Award (School), NTU
Tao CHEN, Jonas
Pioneer Award, Peak Initiative of Digital Finance Open Research
Shinichi KAMIYA 
NBS Research Excellence Award
ZHU Wenjun
Nominee for Msc Financial Engineering Teacher of the Year Award
ZHU Wenjun 
NBS Teaching Excellence Award
  
   

2019

HO Kim Wai Teacher of the Year Award (Nanyang Fellows MBA Programme) 
Tao CHEN, JonasNBS Teaching Excellence Award
Tao CHEN, JonasBest Paper Award, Asian Finance Association (AsianFA) Conference
Hoonsuk PARKBest Paper Award, Conference on Asia-Pacific Financial Markets
Jun-Koo KANGBest Paper Award, International Conference on Asia-Pacific Financial Markets, Seoul, Korea
Jun-Koo KANGThe 12th Shinhan Bank & KAFA Best Paper Award, Korean and American Finance Association, New Orleans, USA
LUO JiangReview of Financial Economics best paper award, “Affect Heuristic and Stock Ownership: A Theoretical Perspective” (joint with Avanidhar Subrahmanyam)
Shinichi KAMIYAEuropean Financial Management Readers’ Choice Best Paper Award
WU Yuan 
Teacher of the Year Award (MSc Finance Programme)