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Overview
Charles Chang, Deputy Dean of Academics, Professor of Finance, Director of the Fintech Research Center, at the International School of Finance, Fudan University, Member of the finance faculty at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
From 2010-2017, he was Professor at Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance, Shanghai Jiao Tong University where he served as director of the Master of Finance program, ranked by Financial Times as the best EMF program in Asia and top 10 in the world. He has been a member of the faculty at the National Taiwan University, Peking University, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong after starting his professorial career at Cornell University.
Professor
Chang’s research spans the fields of Fintech, investments, corporate finance,
and behavioral finance, and his work has been noted in more than 200 media
outlets with work published in top journals such as the Journal of Financial
Economics, the Journal of Corporate Finance, the Journal of International Money
and Finance, the Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Derivatives and
Financial Management. He has been awarded a number of top grants, including
those of the National Science Foundation and of the Shanghai Institute of
International Finance and Economics. Professor Chang obtained the first batch
of project approval of Fudan Base of Yiwu Research Institute.
He
co-hosted Fintech forums with the UN Digital Financing Task Force and the China
Digital Finance Advisory Group in Davos during the World Economic Forums in
2019 and 2020. He has also interacted in public forums a number global leaders
including Swiss Federal President Ueli Maurer and his finance and economics
delegation in China in 2019.
Professor Chang was a decorated scholar at the University of Pennsylvania where he earned Bachelor degrees in electrical engineering and in finance at the Wharton School. Then, he received a Ph.D. in Finance from the Haas Business School at the University of California, Berkeley. He has served on a number of boards and has successful professional engagements in technology private equity and venture financing.
(Updated by March 2024)