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Dr. Xiang Bing is the Founding Dean and Dean’s Distinguished Chair Professor of China Business and Globalization at Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB). Under his leadership, CKGSB has evolved from a fledgling school to one of the most influential business schools in China with a global reputation since its establishment in November 2002.

Renowned as a foremost authority on China’s business and economy, Dr. Xiang has delivered  keynote speeches at prestigious forums/ conferences including: ​​Harvard College China Forum​​ as closing keynote (2017), the first opening keynote (2018, 2023), opening keynote (2019), and the first closing keynote (2024); ​​Penn Wharton China Summit​​ as the first opening keynote (2023), the first closing keynote (2024), and the only closing keynote (2025); ​​Columbia China Forum​​ as the only closing keynote (2024); Indonesia Economic Summit as one of the four keynotes in the opening ceremony (2025); ​​​​SCMP China Conference on US-China Relations​​ in New York City as the only closing keynote (2019). In 2018, he was a lunch keynote speaker for the Foreign Policy Association’s Board of Trustees (FPA) in New York City and presented a lunch keynote at Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C.. Dr. Xiang was invited to attend the Ditchley Foundation Annual Forum in 2010, 2012, 2018 and 2021 and served as the First Co-Chairman in 2018. Dr. Xiang was also invited to participate in the Rome Roundtable during 2017 – 2020, in 2022 and in 2024.

Dr. Xiang has served as an independent board member to several listed companies, including four Fortune Global 500 companies. He was a member of the Global Board of Trustees for United Way Worldwide (US) during 2011-2017. He is now a member of the Advisory Board for Asia House in London and a Counselor for One Young World Summit in Dublin. He is also serving as a member of the Advisory Board for multiple scholarly societies, including Fundação Dom Cabral (FDC) in Brazil, Yonsei School of Business in Korea, the Royal Academy of Management (RAM) in Oman, the Faculty of Business Administration at the University of Macau, the Business School of SciTech of University of Science and Technology of China, and the Business School of Southern University of Science and Technology in China, etc.

Dr. Xiang’s research interests include economic disruption, business in China, global implications of China’s economic transformation, China’s development models, innovation and globalization by Chinese companies, reform of SOEs, Chin-U.S. Relations, and global trade and investment systems and global governance, etc.

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

Associate Professor of Marketing, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB)

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 and Associate Dean for MBA Program, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB)

PhD, Columbia Business School

Areas of Expertise: Statistical Machine Learning, Bayesian Nonparametrics, Scalable Optimization, Choice Modeling, Text Mining, Online Personalization and Recommendation

Biography

Dr Yang Li is Associate Professor of Marketing and Associate Dean for MBA Program at Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business. He holds a Ph.D. in Marketing and an M.S. in Biomedical Engineering, both from Columbia University, as well as a B.S. in Electronics Science from Peking University. His scholarly expertise lies in statistical machine learning and Bayesian nonparametrics, which he applies to a variety of areas such as online personalization, consumer linguistics, and choice modeling. Dr Li has published on top-tier academic journals including Management Science, Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing Research, and Journal of Consumer Research. At CKGSB, he teaches marketing management to EMBA, Business Scholars Program (DBA), MBA, and Executive Education. In addition to academic pursuits, Dr Li has shared his insights with leading companies, providing consultancy to Tencent, Haier, and Tmall, etc. Dr Li also brings his analytical acumen to the corporate governance realm, holding board positions at several publicly traded companies across mainland China and Hong Kong, where he helps steer strategy and innovation.

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

Dean’s Distinguished Chair Professor of Finance and Senior Associate Dean, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB)

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 Senior Associate Dean. 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, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (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

Professor Jie Gan holds a Ph.D. from MIT and is currently a Professor of Finance at Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB) and a former Associate Dean of Technology Innovation and Alumni Affairs. Prior to joining CKGSB, she was a professor in finance at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and an assistant professor (tenure track) at Columbia Business School. She has published extensively on banking and finance in top academic journals. In 2011, she was the runner-up for the prestigious Brennan Award for Excellent Papers. Her research and teaching were featured in major media outlets, such as Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and the Economist.

Professor Gan conducts a large-sample survey of about 3000 industrial firms every quarter. The resulting Business Sentiment Index (BSI) and the unique insights generated have been regularly reported by top media outlets, such as Wall Street Journal and FT. The time series of Professor Gan’s economic indices can be accessed through the Bloomberg terminal.

Professor Gan’s industry experience is in technology innovation. She has invested in and mentored five unicorn companies from their early stages. She is a co-founder of XbotPark in Dongguan Songshan Lake, China, considered the best tech incubator in China. She founded Zhixing Institute of Business Practices for Tech Entrepreneurs, which aims to systematically help tech founders enhance their business insights and abilities by combining highly practical teaching and coaching with tech incubation. From 2015 to the present, among companies invested in and mentored by Professor Gan, at least one company per year has been awarded by Time magazine as Best Invention of the Year.

In her leisure time, Professor Gan is an avid contemporary art collector. She is also active in promoting young artists worldwide, which to her resembles angel investing and tech incubation. She enjoys reading, watching movies, meditation, traveling, and fitness exercises, such as jogging, swimming, hiking, and Chinese martial art.

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