Wei Jiang

Wei Jiang is the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Finance at Emory University Goizueta Business School. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Program on Corporate Governance at Harvard Law School, a Research Associate of the NBER—Law and Economics, a member of the Committee on Capital Market Regulation, and a member of the Academic Advisory Council of the Managed Funds Association.

Professor Jiang is a leading scholar in corporate governance and institutional investors. She has published extensively in top finance, economics, and law journals, and her research has been frequently featured in major media. She received numerous awards for research excellence, including the best paper prizes from Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, and Journal of Financial Economics. She served as editor of Review of Financial Studies and Management Science, and Associate Editor at the Journal of Finance. In recognition of her distinguished scholarship, she was named the 2018 Fellow of the Financial Management Association (FMA). Professor Jiang has taught courses in Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, and Empirical Methods in the Master, MBA/EMBA, and Ph.D. programs, and is a six-time recipient of teaching excellence awards.

Professor Jiang received her B.A. and M.A. in international economics from Fudan University (China), and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago in 2001.