Wei Jiang
Education
Ph.D., economics, The University of Chicago; M.S., economics, Fudan University
Summary of Experience
Professor Jiang is a finance expert whose research focuses on corporate governance, institutional investment, technology, and financial markets. She has published extensively on M&A, as well as corporate finance and governance issues related to control changes. Her work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals and featured in major media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Institutional Investor, Money, Fortune, Businessweek, The New York Times, and the Financial Times. Professor Jiang is the recipient of several awards for research excellence, including from The Journal of Finance, The Review of Financial Studies, and the Journal of Financial Economics, as well as best paper prizes from the Western Finance Association, the Chicago Quantitative Alliance, INQUIRE UK, the Q Group, and the Investor Responsibility Research Center Institute. She has served in editorial roles for several prominent journals, including The Review of Financial Studies, The Journal of Finance, and Management Science.
Professor Jiang is currently the vice president of the American Finance Association. Her three-year term will include a year as president-elect in 2025 and a year as president in 2026. She is also a senior fellow at the Program on Corporate Governance at Harvard Law School, a fellow at the Financial Management Association, a research associate in the Law and Economics and Corporate Finance Programs at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation, and the president of the Society for Financial Studies. Prior to joining Goizueta Business School, Professor Jiang was the Arthur F. Burns Professor of Free and Competitive Enterprise and the vice dean for curriculum and instruction at Columbia Business School.