Dean Jun Qian Attends AACSB Elevate: Asia Pacific, Delivers a Keynote Speech | Info

Release time：2025-11-25    

From November 18^th to 19^th 2025, the 1^st AACSB Elevate: Asia Pacific was successfully held in Hong Kong, China. Jun Qian, Executive Dean of Fudan International School of Finance and Professor in Finance, was invited to attend the conference and share his insights at the forum themed on “Advancing Research Impact”, discussing the evolution and prospect of the research evaluation system with business education leaders in the Asia Pacific Region.

As a newly launched flagship conference by AACSB, Elevate: Asia Pacific converges, college deans, policy makers and academic leaders from worldwide seek to focus on core issues in business education during a time of transformation.

At the themed forum, Jun Qian thought highly of the “global research impact framework” proposed by AACSB, and elucidated, drawing on the School's exemplary research practices, how to build high-level academic influence by adhering to three core principles of upholding academic excellence, focusing on real-world relevance, and fostering cross-disciplinary collaboration.

Qian pointed out that in today’s world of deep intertwinement between globalization and local practices, business school research must transcend traditional evaluation metrics and prioritize its tangible reverberations in policy advocacy, industry innovation and shifts in societal understanding. For example, FISF mainly puts efforts in the following three aspects to expand its financial research influence:

Firstly, the policy influence of financial research on financial market development. When Shanghai Stock Exchange initially planned to launch the STAR Market, FISF professors were involved.

Secondly, the influence on practice. Lately, in collaboration with the China Meteorological Administration, Fudan University has co-established a Key Open Laboratory of Financial Meteorology. Through their research, FISF professors have developed a framework that incorporates climate change as a risk factor, for use by listed companies and financial institutions.

Thirdly, the influence on education. At present, with a wide range of application scenarios for AI in the financial industry, business schools can set up relevant courses, such as the application of AI in banking, the application of AI in the fixed income market, etc. His sharing aroused wide resonance with the audience, offering a referential “China Case” for research impact reform in the Asia Pacific Region.

Fudan International School of Finance has consistently committed to engaging in high-level international discourse and actively contributing the insights and practices of Chinese business education. Jun Qian’s talk at this year’s forum demonstrated not only the forward-thinking of FISF in the transformation of research paradigms, but also the growing discourse power and leadership of Chinese business schools on the global stage of education governance.