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Prof. Jun Qian has been Professor of Finance and Executive Dean at the International School of Finance, Fudan University since the school was founded in June 2017. He was elected to the Standing Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, Shanghai Committee, in January 2023.

Prof. Qian’s research interests span many areas of corporate finance, financial institutions, and capital markets. His research papers have been published in top academic journals, including the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of International Economics, and Management Science. One of his best-known papers, entitled “Law, finance, and economic growth in China,” published in the Journal of Financial Economics (JFE) in 2005, won an “All-Star” paper award based on its large number of citations.

Prof. Qian is on the Advisory Board of European Journal of Finance, an Associate Editor of Frontiers of Economics in China, and was on the editorial board of Review of Finance. He is a Senior Fellow of the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research, and a Research Fellow at the Financial Institutions Center of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He also serves as a member of the Academic Committee of the Capital Market Research Institute of the Shanghai Stock Exchange, and one of the first group of international financial legal experts of the Shanghai High People’s Court. He was an independent director of China CITIC Bank (2016-2022).