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Founding Dean, Professor of China Business and Globalization at CKGSB

PhD, University of Alberta

Areas of Expertise: Economic Disruption, Business in China, Constructive Innovations, Global Implications of China’s Economic Transformation, Innovation and Globalization by Chinese Companies, Innovation in Management Education, Reform of SOEs, Relationship Between State and Business, Role of Private Sector in China

Dr. Xiang Bing is the Founding Dean and Professor of China Business and Globalization at Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB). CKGSB is China’s first faculty-governed, independent and private business school with headquarters in Beijing, campuses in Shanghai and Shenzhen and representative offices in Hong Kong, London and New York. 

He has served as an independent board member of a number of companies (including three Fortune Global 500 companies) listed in Hong Kong, Mainland China and the United States. He is a member of the International Advisory Council of Fundação Dom Cabral (FDC), a member of the Global Advisory Board of Yonsei School of Business in Korea, a member of the Advisory Board of Asia House in London and a Counselor for One Young World Summit in Dublin. He has also served as a member of the Board of Trustees for United Way Worldwide (US) from 2011-2017.

Dr. Xiang is a leading authority on China business. His research interests include the reform of state-owned enterprises, innovation and the role of the private sector and economic disruption in China. His insights on the innovations in China, globalization of Chinese companies, China’s development models, global implications of China’s transformation, social innovation, economic disruption, China-US relations, global trade and investment systems and global governance have been widely acclaimed.

Dr. Xiang has served as keynote speaker at influential forums and conferences around the world. These events include 2020 China National Annual Conference on Philanthropy (December 24, 2020; Chengdu; opening keynote), SCMP China Conference: USA 2019 (December 10, 2019; New York City; closing keynote), Trade and Development Regional Forum 2019 (September 2, 2019; Bangkok; keynote), Harvard China Forum (closing keynote, 2017; first opening keynote, 2018; opening keynote, 2019; Harvard University), FT Banking Summit 2017 (November 30, 2017; London; closing keynote), CKGSB-Brookings US-China Forum 2016 (December 14, 2016; New York City; opening keynote & Dialogue with Dr. Henry Kissinger), US Committee of 100 Annual Conference 2016 (April 16, 2016; Los Angeles; opening keynote). He has been invited to prestigious webinars such as Bo’ao Dialogue 2020, Asian Leadership Conference 2020 (Seoul, Korea), World Knowledge Forum 2021 (Seoul, Korea) and World Chinese Economic Summit 2020.

He has participated in many prominent closed-door conferences, including Ditchley Foundation Annual Forum, Yale CEO Summit and Rome Roundtable. He was also an invited speaker for forums such as the World Economic Forum, Bo’ao Forum for Asia and Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum, and for institutions like the Foreign Policy Association (September 27, 2018; New York City; lunch keynote for members of the Board of Trustees), Center for Strategic and International Studies (September 28, 2018; Washington D.C.; lunch keynote and roundtable panelist) and Pheu Thai Party in Thailand (September 2, 2019; Bangkok; a special talk for 350 parliament members).

Dr. Xiang was named the “China Philanthropist of the Year” in 2018 and 2020 by China Philanthropy Times. He was awarded the “Vanguard for Social Responsibilities” in 2020 by Southern Weekly.

Dr. Xiang received his Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Alberta in Canada, and his bachelor’s degree in Engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University in China. 

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Phone: +86 10 8518 8858 ext. 3314
E-mail: bjing@ckgsb.edu.cn

Associate Professor of Marketing

PhD, University of Rochester

Areas of Expertise: E-Commerce, Product Customization, Product Differentiation, Product Line Design and Pricing, Word of Mouth Marketing

Biography

Dr Jing Bing is an Associate Professor of Marketing at CKGSB. He earned his PhD in business administration from the University of Rochester in 2001.

Between 2001 and 2007, he was an Assistant Professor of Information Systems at the Stern School of Business at New York University. Professor Jing’s research interests include mass customization, product line design and pricing, product differentiation, word-of-mouth marketing, etc.

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Phone: +86 10 8518 8858 ext. 3811
E-mail: yangli@ckgsb.edu.cn

Associate Professor of Marketing, Executive Academic Director for MBA Program and Executive Education Programs

PhD, Columbia Business School

Areas of Expertise: Machine Learning, Bayesian Nonparametrics, Big Data, Choice Modeling, Text Mining, Recommender Systems

Biography

Dr. Li is Associate Professor of Marketing at Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business. He received a Ph.D. in Marketing from Columbia University, a M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Columbia University, and a B.S. in Electronics from Peking University. His research focuses on big data marketing analytics, with emphases related to pricing, consumer choice, and competitive strategy. Professor Li has published on leading academic journals such as Management Science, Marketing Science, and Journal of Marketing Research. At CKGSB, Dr. Li teaches marketing management to MBAs, EMBAs and Executive Education. He has also consulted for Tencent, Baidu and Yonghui Groups, and currently holds a US patent.

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Phone: +852 5199 6227 ext. 2435
E-mail: houyang@ckgsb.edu.cn

Dean’s Distinguished Chair Professor of Finance,
Associate Dean for Executive MBA Program

PhD, University of California, Berkeley
PhD, Tulane University

Areas of Expertise: Asset Pricing, Corporate Finance, Fixed Income, Integrated Models of Asset Pricing, Internet Finance, Moral Hazard, Quantitative Strategies and Research, Risk Management 

Biography

Prof Ou-Yang is the Dean’s Distinguished Chair Professor of Finance at CKGSB. He also serves as Associate Dean for Executive MBA Program. His academic research focuses on the development of asset pricing and corporate finance models. He had previously served as an Associate Professor at Duke University and an Associate Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill. Prof Ou-Yang was voted the best teacher by Duke’s Global EMBA Class of 2004. He won the Barclays Global Investors/Michael Brennan Runner-Up Award for the best paper published in the Review of Financial Studies in 2003 as well as the best paper award (joint with Henry Cao) presented by the Society of Quantitative Analysts in 2005.

Before joining CKGSB, Dr Ou-Yang served as a managing director at UBS where he headed the Quantitative Solutions/Algo Strategies division. His work focused on alpha-generating trading strategies and quantitative portfolio strategies, as well as on the development of structured products. His team developed various structured products, such as “Hedging and Outperforming Inflations in China, Hong Kong, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand”, “Asset Allocation using Macro Signals” and “Relative Value Commodity Strategies”. In addition, he provided customized solutions for major UBS clients such as utility companies, airlines and banks. Ou-Yang also served as a managing director at Lehman Brothers and Nomura Securities, where he headed Quantitative Strategies and Quantitative Credit Research. He was heavily involved with many of Lehman’s credit/interest rate structured products as well as beta products, such as replicating Lehman’s bond indexes and replicating the global hedge fund index.

Dr Ou-Yang holds a PhD in finance from UC Berkeley and a PhD in chemical physics from Tulane University. He received his postdoctoral training in chemical physics from the California Institute of Technology, where he worked under Nobel Laureate Rudy Marcus.

Phone: +86 10 8518 8858 ext. 3323
E-mail: jgan@ckgsb.edu.cn

Professor of Finance, Director of Center on Finance and Economic Growth at CKGSB

PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Areas of Expertise: Asset Pricing, Automation, Banking, China’s Industrial Economy, Corporate Finance, Entrepreneurship, Financial Regulation, Manufacturing, Stock Markets

Prof. Gan Jie is Professor of Finance and Director of Center on Finance and Economic Growth at CKGSB. Prior to joining CKGSB, she served as a professor (with tenure) at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and an assistant professor at Columbia Business School. Prof. Gan holds a PhD in Finance from MIT.

Professor Gan has published extensively on banking and finance issues in top academic journals. In 2011, she was the runner-up for the prestigious Brennan Award for Excellent Papers. Prof Gan’s teaching has been rated highly by both MBA and EMBA students and she has received several teaching awards. Her research and teaching were featured in major media outlets, such as Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and the Economist.

Professor Gan conducts large-sample survey of industrial firms every quarter. The resulting Business Sentiment Index (BSI) and the unique insights generated from the survey have received worldwide attention and are regularly reported by top media outlets, such as Wall Street Journal, FT. The time series of Professor Gan’s economic indices can be accessed through the Bloomberg terminal.

Currently, Professor Gan’s main industry experience is in technology innovation in hard-ware related areas, including smart products, smart equipment and production. She is a board member of a number of high-tech companies, including DJI innovations, and provided support to these companies in their early stages. These successes led her to be one of the founders of Songshan Lake Robotic Park and Startup Incubator in Dongguan. She is also a mentor of Hong Kong X Technology Startup Incubator.

Professor Gan also has extensive experiences in the finance industry. She worked for CRA International (formerly Charles River Associates), one of the largest finance and economics consulting firms in the US, for two years. Her consulting experience spans company valuation, security fraud, and anti-trust in a range of industries including financial services, consumer goods, and energy. In Hong Kong, she was consulted by banks on how to identify bubbles in the real estate market and how to incorporate real estate properties into investment portfolios.

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