2025 FISF International Advisory Committee Conference Successfully Held | Heavyweight

Release time：2025-05-28    

FISF MARCOM  May 28^th 2025 18:55  Shanghai

On May 25^th, 2025 FISF International Advisory Committee Conference was successfully held at Fudan University. Top experts, scholars and industry leaders from both at home and abroad gathered together with school representatives and provided advice and suggestions upon topics like the school’s development strategies, disciplinary construction, talent cultivation and international cooperation. 

Franklin Allen, Co-chair of FISF International Advisory Committee and Chair Professor of Imperial College London Business School, Beatrice Weder di Mauro, Professor in Economics at The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and Chairman of Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Wenzhong Fan, Deputy Dean of Beijing Academy of Social Sciences, Wei Jiang, Chair Professor at Emory University School of Business and Incoming President of American Finance Association, Naifen Yu, Honorary Chairman of Shanghai Green Court Investment Holdings Group, Yang Zheng, Vice Chairman of Shanghai State-owned Capital Investment Co., Ltd, Ye Zhou, Chairman and CEO of Huifu Co., Ltd, as well as Zhimin Chen, Vice President of Fudan University, Shang-Jin Wei, Co-chair of FISF International Advisory Committee and Tenured Chair Professor at Columbia University, Jun Qian, Executive Dean of FISF, Yuejiang Li, Secretary of FISF Party General Branch, Charles Zhang, Deputy Dean of Academics at FISF, and Huasheng Gao, Deputy Dean of Faculty and Research at FISF, attended the conference on the site. Jianzhang Liang, Co-founder and Board Chairman of Ctrip Group, attended the conference online, and Professor Shang-Jin Wei acted as the host.

In the welcome speech, Vice President Zhimin Chen mentioned that 2025 is the year of the 120^th anniversary of Fudan University, which had always been rooted in China and looked out towards the world throughout the 120 years’ time. Having been continuously pioneering and exploring, it has cultivated a large number of excellent talents. The International School of Finance was officially established in 2017 and has made fruitful achievements in teaching, scientific research and social services ever after. Facing a new pattern in international finance, especially the high-speed development of new technology represented by artificial intelligence, the school needs to focus on major frontier theoretical issues, promote interdisciplinary research and construction, cultivate excellent financial talents and facilitate the construction of Shanghai International Financial Center.

Executive Dean Jun Qian reported the development of the school in the past year from 4 aspects of faculty research, teaching programs, resource expansion and future focuses. The school has continued to optimize the teaching structure and has 5 professors newly added who have their own emphasis in their respective research fields, which further increases the teaching power of FISF; several application-oriented research centers have been landed, concentrating the research contents more on frontier fields and applications; innovative degree programs have been smoothly launched, enriching the school’s full-chain talent cultivation system to a larger extent; and resource expansion has been pushed forward orderly, with new campuses in Handan and Huangpu officially launched, and multiple international cooperation projects have been steadily implemented.

During the conference session, the committee members conducted discussions on core topics of teacher introduction, talent cultivation, frontier scientific research, innovation and entrepreneurship, international cooperation and alumni network, providing wise suggestions for the school’s development based on global trends and practical experience. They thought highly of the remarkable achievements acquired by the school in the short term, and affirmed the forward-looking measures such as setting up the fintech-oriented undergraduate major and releasing master’s degree in technology transfers; stressed the future trend of interdisciplinary integration of finance with technology and climate, and advised to pay attention to major changes in financial innovation tendencies; laid emphasis on theory-practice collaboration to address substantial practical financial issues in China; advance the establishment of alumni network and provide good management and services for alumni; and enhance international exchange and cooperation by expanding the enrollment of international students and English teaching programs to improve the global influence of the school. The committee members expected the school to play a more essential role in future global financial education and research based on Fudan’s advantages of being a comprehensive university and position of Shanghai International Financial Center.

The conference was held just during the period of the celebration of the 120^th anniversary of Fudan University, and in the upcoming June the 8^th anniversary of FISF will also come. Taking this as an opportunity, the school will carefully listen to the committee members’ suggestions and accordingly make efforts in deepening reform and innovation, promoting the in-depth integration of financial education with technology and industry, and cultivating excellent compound financial talents. By taking such measures, it is determined to contribute wisdom and strength to global financial governance, the implementation of finance boosting the country, and the construction of “the First Fudan”.