Keynote Speaker

Keynote Speakers

Prof. Ran Zhang

Renmin University of China, China

Brief biography: 

Zhang Ran, Professor of Business School in Renmin University of China, Director of the Graduate Program.  She is the Elsevier 2020 and 2021 Highly CitedZhang Ran, Professor of Business School at Renmin University of China, Director of the Graduate Program. She is an Elsevier 2020 and 2021 Highly Cited Scholar. She worked at Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, from 2006 to 2019. She was a member of the first Accounting Standards Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Finance and served as an independent director and chairman of the audit committee of BYD Company Ltd. She has published more than 30 papers in top academic journals at home and abroad, such as the Journal of Financial Economics and Economic Research. In August 2017, he published the monograph "Fundamental Quantitative Investment." Professor Zhang Ran's research achievements have won the Roger F. Murray Outstanding Research Award of the American Financial Quantitative Association, the "Best Paper Award" of the American Accounting Association, the first prize of the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Excellence Award of Peking University, and the final "Excellent" evaluation of the National Natural Science Foundation. Her courses have been awarded the Teaching Training Certificate from Harvard Business School. 

Prof. Jiye Hu

China University of Political Science and Law, China

Brief biography:

Jiye Hu is a professor of law and finance, at the China University of Political Science and Law, and visiting scholar at Oxford University, and Duke University. He received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Tsinghua University, and a Ph.D. in economics from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Before his appointment in 2006, he worked for the Beijing local municipal government and held various posts in the policy-oriented economic research field. In 2009, 2010, and 2017 he was appointed as a local senior expert at the EU-China Social Security Reform Cooperation Project. In 2011 he was appointed as a local expert on a joint project by the World Bank and the Chinese Ministry of Environment Protection. His current research and teaching focus on pension finance, financial regulation, and digital finance. He published several books On the Legislation of Pension Regulation (2013), and Security of Future: Social Insurance Funds Invest into Capital Market (2006). His representative English papers are “An empirical approach on regulating China’s pension investment”, European Journal of Law and Economics, Volume 37, Issue 3 (2014); “Pension finance: theoretic definition and some practical issues in China”, Finance and Trade Economics, No.6. 2013. 

Currently, research projects include: Research on legislation and supervision related to the digital economy, sponsored by the National Cyberspace Administration’s computer network and information security management center, October 2019; A study on the regulation of prevention and mitigation of local financial risks of fintech, sponsored by Beijing law society, August 2019; Research on financial theory and practice innovation of full life cycle pension preparation, a major project sponsored by the Ministry of Education, July 2019; Research on preventing systemic financial risks in a new era, a key project sponsored by Beijing social science foundation, August 2018.

Prof. SIAU, Keng Leng

Singapore Management University,Singapore

Brief biography:

Professor Siau is the Lee Kong Chian Professor of Information Systems at the School of Computing and Information Systems, Singapore Management University. From June 2021 to June 2024, he was the Head of the Department of Information Systems and Chair Professor of Information Systems at the City University of Hong Kong (CityU). He was also an Affiliated Chair Professor of the School of Data Science at CityU, Affiliated Professor of the CityU Academy of Innovation,and Academic Member of the Institute of Digital Medicine. From 2012 to 2021, he was Head (“Business Dean” equivalent) of the AACSB accredited Business Program at the Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T), an R1 university.Before joining Missouri S&T, he was the Edwin J. Faulkner Professor and Full Professor of Management at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (R1 university).Professor Siau received his Ph.D. in Business Administration with a specialization in Management Information Systems from the University of British Columbia. Professor Siau has more than 350 academic publications. According to Google Scholar, he has a citation count of more than 25,000. His h-index and i10-index, according to Google Scholar, are 80 and 219 respectively.He is also on the Stanford University list of the world’s top 1% most-cited scientists. Professor Siauis an AIS Distinguished Member–Cum Laude. He is a recipient of the prestigious International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Outstanding Service Award in 2006, IBM Faculty Awards in 2006 and 2008, IBM Faculty Innovation Award in 2010, Association for Information Systems (AIS) Sandra Slaughter Service Award in 2019, AIS Award for Outstanding Contribution to IS Education in 2019, AIS Fellow Award in 2022, and AMCIS Outstanding Leader Award in 2023.

Research Area: Digital Transformation, Digital Finance and FinTech, Digital Medicine and AI in Healthcare, Human-AI/Robot Collaboration, Future of Work and Humanity, Web3, Metaverse.

Prof. Huaping Sun

Jiangsu University, China

Brief biography:

Huaping Sun is a Professor in the School of Finance and Economics/Institute of Industrial Economics, Jiangsu University. He was born in 1979 in Jining, Shandong Province, China, and received his Ph.D. of Economics at the School of Economics, Zhejiang University in 2011. His-main research field is industrial low-carbon economics and global value chain innovation, energy economy and environmental governance. He has published more than 30 SCI/SSCI papers including Energy, Energy Policy, Journal of Cleaner Production, etc.

Educational Background

1.2017.9-2017.12 Nanyang Technological University, Visiting scholar

2.2016.6-2019.6 Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Post doctor

3.2015.3-2016.3 University of Nevada, Reno, Visiting scholar

4.2007.9-2011.6 Zhejiang University, Ph.D.

5.1997.9-2005.7 Qingdao University, Master and bachelor