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. Paulo Batista
University of Évora, Portugal
Brief biography:
Paulo Batista is PhD Researcher at CIDEHUS.UÉ-Interdisciplinary Center for History, Cultures and Societies of the University of Évora, Portugal, where is the coordinator of the research group 2: Heritage and Literacies. Currently works as senior archive technician in the Lisbon Municipal Archives, and professor at the Iscte-IUL, in the Master in Architecture and Visual Culture in Lisbon, and at the Autonomous University of Lisbon, where is coordinator and professor of the Postgraduate in Promotion and Cultural and Educational Dynamization of Archives and Libraries, and the Postgraduate in Architectural Archives.
He has lectured in the Master in Information Science and Documentation at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (UNL) and has held senior technician positions at the Portuguese Institute of Cultural Heritage, the Portuguese Institute of Architectural Heritage, and the Torre do Tombo Archives. He has also worked as researcher at the Center for the Study of History and Ancient Cartography of the Institute of Tropical Scientific Research.
Paulo Batista holds a Ph.D. in Documentation (University of Alcalá, Madrid-UAH), a Master in Information Science and Documentation - Archival Studies (UNL). As part of his doctorate he also received a Diploma of Advanced Studies in Bibliography and Documentation Retrospective in Humanities (UAH), and a Master in Documentation (UAH). He also holds a postgraduate degree in Information Society Law (University of Lisbon) and Information and Documentation Science - Librarianship and Archival Studies (UNL), and a specialization in Good Practices in Patrimonial Management (UNL) and Information Science and Documentation - Archival Studies (UNL). He holds an undergraduate degree in History (University of Lisbon).
Paulo Batista is author of a number of books and about 80 papers published in international journals and conference proceedings. He was also keynote speaker and invited speaker at various international conferences (Argentina, Brazil, China, Ecuador, England, Fiji, France, India, Portugal, South Africa, South Korea, Thailand and Vietnam).
Research Area: Information Science, Architectural Archives, Humanities and Arts
Prof. SIAU Keng Leng
Singapore Management University, Singapore
Brief biography:Professor Siau is the Head of the Department of Information Systems and Chair Professor of Information Systems at the City University of Hong Kong (June 2021-present). He is also a Chair Professor (Affiliate) of the School of Data Science and Affiliate Professor of the CityU Academy of Innovation, City University of Hong Kong. Professor Siau has more than 300 academic publications. According to Google Scholar, he has a citation count of more than 22,000. His h-index and i10-index, according to Google Scholar, are 75 and 192, respectively. Professor Siau is consistently ranked as one of the top information systems researchers globally based on his h-index and productivity rate. In 2006, he was ranked as one of the top ten e-commerce researchers globally (Arithmetic Rank of 7, Geometric Rank of 3). In 2006, the citation count for his paper "Building Customer Trust in Mobile Commerce" was ranked in the top 1% in the field, as reported by Essential Science Indicators. He is also on 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023 Stanford University lists of the top 2% most-cited scientists in the world (he is ranked in the top 1%) and ranked as one of the top computer scientists in the U.S., China, and the world.
Research Area: Digital Transformation and Digital Society, Business Analytics and Data Science, Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Smart City, Smart Health, and FinTech, AI, ChatGPT, Robotics, and Machine Learning: Future of Work and Future of Humanity, Human-Centered AI, Human-AI Collaboration, 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