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Professor Jie Gan serves as Professor of Finance and Director of the Center on Finance and Economic Growth at Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB), holding a PhD from MIT and previously serving as faculty at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Columbia Business School. Her research and teaching have been featured in Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and The Economist.
Her academic foundation includes:
- PhD in Finance, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Bachelor's degree, Nanjing University (awarded "Best Graduate of the Year" in 1991)
Professor Gan's research spans Asset Pricing, Corporate Finance, Banking, and China's Industrial Economy, with signature work on the quarterly Business Sentiment Index (BSI) tracking 3,000 industrial firms. Her scholarship bridges empirical finance with technology entrepreneurship, examining how financial markets interact with manufacturing and innovation ecosystems in emerging economies through large-scale datasets and natural experiments.
Her publication trajectory reveals consistent focus on market efficiency, collateral mechanisms, and financial stability, with increasing emphasis on China's economic transformation since 2007. Recent work integrates machine learning with traditional econometrics to analyze automation's impact on industrial finance.
Key recognitions include:
- Michael J. Brennan Best Paper Award Runner Up (2011)
- Franklin Prize for Teaching Excellence (2004, 2008)
- Four consecutive Hong Kong RGC Competitive Earmark Research Grants (2003-2008)
- Columbia University Faculty Research Award (2001-2002)
As an educator, she teaches EMBA, MBA, and Unicorn Program Series courses while mentoring tech entrepreneurs through her Zhixing Institute. Her industry impact includes co-founding XbotPark incubator and guiding five unicorn companies, with at least one Time magazine "Best Invention" annually since 2015.
She leads CKGSB's economic index initiatives and directs the Center on Finance and Economic Growth, while pioneering the integration of art curation principles into tech incubation through her contemporary art collection practice.
