KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Professor Bohui ZHANG, Executive Dean, Presidential Chair Professor; Director of the Center for FinTech and Social Finance, Shenzhen Finance Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. Professor ZHANG is a world-class researcher and serves in the editorial boards of a number of top-tier journals in Finance and Accounting. His research topics cover FinTech, the media, capital market, and international capital markets. His papers have been accepted for publication in the global top-tier finance, accounting, and business journals such as the Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, Management Science, Journal of Financial Quantitative and Analysis, Journal of International Business Studies, Review of Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Financial Markets, and Journal of International Money and Finance, etc.

Associate Professor Ambrus Kecskés, Associate Professor of Finance at the Schulich School of Business, York University, Canada. He studied at the Rotman School of Management and earned a B.Com. and Ph.D. in Finance, both from the University of Toronto. His main research expertise and interests lie at the intersection of financial markets and the real economy. He has published numerous papers in the top journals, including the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Management Science, and The Accounting Review. He is an Associate Editor at the Journal of Corporate Finance. His research has won many best paper awards at conferences around the world and is regularly cited by such media outlets as the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Forbes, the Financial Post, the Globe and Mail, and CBC News.