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      DRAGON YONGJUN TANG

      Professor (by courtesy)

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      Dragon Tang is Professor of Finance at the University of Hong Kong. He is also a Changjiang Scholar Chair Professor by Ministry of Education of China and Managing Editor of International Review of Finance. During 2017-2020 he was the finance area head of HKU Business School. He received a Ph.D. degree in finance from the University of Texas at Austin in 2005. His research specialties are green finance, ESG, carbon markets, credit derivatives, and Chinese banking and markets. He served as consultant expert on green finance and ESG issues for Asian Development Bank and Hong Kong Centre for Green and Sustainable Finance. He provided training lectures for People’s Bank of China and China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission. He received research grants from many organizations including ClimateWorks Foundation. His research findings are published in, among others, Journal of Finance and featured in Bloomberg, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal and so on. He received multiple best research paper awards including one from the Global Research Alliance for Sustainable Finance and Investment. He was an inaugural recipient of the Best Doctoral Dissertation Supervisor Award by National Economics Foundation of China.