Li Yang

Professor Li Yang is a faculty member at the University of New South Wales, affiliated with the UNSW Business School and the School of Banking and Finance. She holds a professorship and has served as Head of School from 2019 to 2022. Her educational background includes a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and BSc/MSc degrees from Tsinghua University.

Her research interests center on risk management, energy and commodity markets, and financial modeling. She has published in leading journals such as Management Science and Energy Economics, with a focus on futures trading, hedging strategies, and volatility estimation.

Professor Yang has secured significant research funding, including two Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Grants and one ARC Linkage Grant. These grants support projects like "Investment Irreversibility, Policy Uncertainty, and Hedging Strategies" and "Information Content of Order Flows in the Foreign Exchange and Commodities Markets."

She actively supervises Ph.D. students and teaches courses such as FINS 5513, FINS 3635, and FINS 5535. While her scientific awards are not explicitly listed, her grants and publications highlight her contributions to finance and risk management.