Makers of the Dream of Fanhai International School of Finance, Fudan University

Release time：2018-05-28     information sources：FISF

“Talent is a key to governance of a country and a product of education.” The construction and development of a global top business school depend on the talents. Since officially running in June 2017, Fanhai International School of Finance, Fudan University （FISF） has been attaching high importance to the construction of the faculty team. So far the school has successful a 40-member  global top teacher teams (18 of them are lifetime professionals of international first-class business schools), including 6 chair professors, 10 professors, 3 associate professors, 12 assistant professors, 5 practice professors, 3 visiting professors and 1 adjunct professor.

Teachers are the soul of a school, while lifetime professors are the core of a school. the 19 lifetime professionals of the school is the footstones indispensable for the school to hold the highland of global finance and build itself into a global top finance school.

Especially, all of senior professors of the school have received the titles of lifetime professor from the best business schools in the world as the core of the faculty team, and each of them is an academic leader of finance field with insuperable research outcomes and in-depth experience in research, teaching, practice and management.

Prof. Qian Jun, Executive Dean of the business school, has a doctoral degree of economic finance from University of Pennsylvania. He has acted as Finance Professor of Shanghai Senior Finance School, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Academic Director of DBA/EMBA/EE Program, Vice President of China Academy of Finance and Director of Finance Research Center of the company. Before he returned back to China’s education undertaking in July 2013, he was Professor of Finance, Carroll School of Management, Boston College, USA. “Law, Finance and Economic Growth in China”, as one of Prof. Qian Jun’s most influential theses has  won the “All-Star” Dissertation Award from the Journal of Financial Economics, a top financial academic magazine in the world.

Prof. Chen Shiyi, Secretary of the Party Committee of the school is a distinguished professor of “Yangtze River Scholar” of the Ministry of Education, winner of the National Outstanding Young Scientist Fund and a leading talent in Shanghai. He has won “Zhang Peigang Development Economics Award”, “Liu Shibai Economics Award”, and the “First Prize of Outstanding Achievements in Philosophy and Social Sciences in Shanghai” successively. He is also the host of the National Social Science Fund Program.

Prof. Gao Huasheng, Deputy Dean for Faculty and Research at has received his doctoral degree of Finance from University of British Columbia. Before taking the office in Fanhai International School of Finance, Fudan University, he has been awarded tenure at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Prof. Gao has long been dedicated to research in corporate finance, corporate governance, and corporate innovation. So far more than ten of his papers including “Even-Odd Nature of Audit Committees and Corporate Earnings Quality” and “Employment Non-Discrimination Acts and Corporate Innovation” have been published in international top academic magazines such as Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, Management Science. He is a leader of mid-age and young economists.

Prof. Zhang Chunxin, Deputy Dean of Academics in the school has received his doctoral degree of Finance from UC Berkeley, major in investment and corporate finance. These years Prof. Zhang has been engaging in research. He has published a number of papers in some international reputed academic magazines and won the title of University of Pennsylvania. He has taken office in Cornell University, Chinese University of Hong Kong and Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance, Shanghai Jiaotong University. A Master Program of Finance led by him has held the first place in Asia.

Besides, three international senior professors and academic experts including Prof. Richard Werner from Southampton University, Prof. Fu Chengde from Institute of Statistics, Central University of Taiwan and Prof. Zhu Lei from Shanghai Senior Finance School, Shanghai Jiaotong University are to join the school. Prof. Richard Werner is the pioneer of Quantitative Easing, with extensive experience in corporate and institutional business. He has taken important offices such as Chief Economist of Jardine Fleming Securities (Asia) Ltd., Consultant of Asian Development Bank, Foreign Advisor of Japan Ministry of Finance and Chief Economist of Tokyo Profit. Research Center Ltd. Prof. Fu Chengde is Chair Professor of the Statistical Institute of the Central University of Taiwan. During his nearly three decades of experience in research and teaching, he has taught at Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, Columbia University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, and Singapore National University and several other top universities in the world. Prof. Zhu Lei is a rare “heroine” in current academic field with extensive researches involving theoretical and empirical corporate finance, M & A, financial markets legal and regulatory systems, stock market effectiveness. Etc. Prof. Zhu Lei also has many years of experience in the industry. She has worked for Analysis Group, one of the global leading consulting companies. During her term, she has participated in and led the analysis of several large-scale economic disputes. Her analysis reports on Enron Accounting Derivatives have been adopted by experts and courts and played an important role in the final decision of the case of Enron’s accounting derivatives.

Besides reputed senior professors, the school is also developing young academic talents. it has engaged 12 young professors all from world’s top universities in North America, Europe, Asia and the rest of the world, With high research level, they are also passionate in academy. They are fresh troops driving the school to make innovations, realize development and conduct research and teaching work in an all round way.

Some facts have proved that these young professors have been moving forward to leading-edge research fields. Since the official running of the school, five young professors including Jiang Liang, Sun Lin, Tang Haihan, Wu Wenbin, and Zhou Sili have had their five academic papers published on international Class-A journals, involving some hot research fields such as econometrics, hedge funds, and currency finance and corporate finance. The papers of the young professors are not inferior to these of senior professors no matter in quality, quantity and scope. Prof. Peng Qiusha is also a talent. There are world-class journals reviewing two academic papers independently completed by this great woman.

Besides, the six young professors to join us are also top of young financial scholars in the world. Among them, Dr. Jiao Yang from Columbia University and Dr. Ma Chang from Johns Hopkins University have in-depth research in macro-economy and international finance. Dr. Yang Liuchun graduated from European Business School is focusing on common fund and investor behaviors. Dr. Jaeyoon Lee was graded from University of Chicago in the direction of home economy and investor behaviors. Dr. Wang Xiaxin from The University of California, San Diego is exploring for the secrets in public economics. Dr. Guo Xiangyu from National University of Singapore is an expert of real estate finance. We believe, the arrival of them will further stimulate the vitality of the research and achieve more innovative results in the school.

Prof. Isidor Isaac Rabi, the Nobel Winner from the United States, has said that professors represent an university. Thanks for these knowledgeable and dedicated professors who are working on all aspects of the school, the thought “Excellence, Responsibility, and Innovation” is rooted and growing up in the school, inspiring every member here and leading us to overcome challenges and move ahead.