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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). Since 2002, he has built CKGSB into one of China’s most influential, and globally recognized business schools.

Widely regarded as one of the foremost authorities on Chinese business and economy, Dr. Xiang has been a distinguished recurring keynote speaker at top U.S. university-led China forums for recent years. He has delivered exclusive keynotes at the Penn Wharton China Summit (opening keynotes in 2023 & 2026, and closing keynote in 2024 & 2025), the Harvard College China Forum (opening keynotes in 2018, 2019 & 2023, and closing keynotes in 2017 & 2024), and the Columbia China Forum (closing keynote 2024).

Dr. Xiang has also shared his unique insights with top global corporations and their senior executive leaders, including serving as a special lecturer addressing 200-300 chairmen, board members, and C-suite executives at Malaysia’s Financial Institutions Directors’ Education Forum (FIDE Forum) (January 2026); the only keynote speaker for top executive leaders from 36 major enterprises across Sweden and Finland at the Combient Senior Executive China Deep Dive (November 2025); exclusive speaker for Morgan Stanley Briefing (August 2025); one of the four opening keynote speakers at the Indonesia Economic Summit (February 2025); keynote speaker at the Morgan Stanley Twenty-First Century Asia Pacific Summit (September 2022); and the only closing keynote speaker at the SCMP China Conference: United States, celebrating the 40th anniversary of US-China Relations in New York City (December 2019).

Dr. Xiang is also a prominent participant in high-level global closed-door forums and conferences, including the Twentieth Edition of Roundtable Japan (2025), Ditchley Foundation Annual Forum (2010, 2012, 2018 and 2021-where he served as First Co-Chairman in 2018), Rome Roundtable (2017-2020, 2022, 2024), and the invitation-only Yale CEO Summit in New York City (2016).

Dr. Xiang has served as an independent board member to multiple listed companies, including four Fortune Global 500 companies. He was a member of the Global Board of Trustees for United Way Worldwide (U.S.) (2011-2017) and currently sits on the Advisory Board of Asia House (London) and acts as Counselor for One Young World Summit (Dublin).

Under Dr. Xiang’s leadership, CKGSB has developed a distinctive model of management education that integrates the humanities, philanthropy, and social innovation into its degree and executive programs. Since first incorporating the humanities into its curriculum in 2005, CKGSB has made philanthropy and social innovation central across its programs, launched the Ji’an poverty-alleviation initiative, and received China Philanthropy Times’ “Annual Philanthropic Enterprise” award five times (2017–2020, 2023).

Dr. Xiang’s research focuses on how countries and enterprises navigate periods of profound economic, technological and geopolitical change. His work spans global development models, economic disruption, China-U.S. relations, global trade and investment, and the transformation of Chinese enterprises, with particular attention to scaling, globally relevant business models, and the emergence of “Groundbreaking Innovation.”

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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, Word of Mouth Marketing, Personalized Pricing, AI 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, personalized pricing, word-of-mouth marketing, AI marketing, and e-commerce, 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 Research Department 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 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.

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