Wei Jiang
Wei Jiang is
Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Finance at Emory
University's Goizueta Business School, and Vice Dean of Faculty and Research.
She is a Research Associate of the NBER in the departments of Corporate Finance
and Law & Economics. She is currently the Vice President of the American Finance
Association (AFA) and was recently the President of the Society of Financial
Studies (SFS). Professor Jiang's main
research interests lie in corporate governance, institutional investors, and
technology. She has published extensively in top economics, finance, and law
journals, and received numerous awards for research excellence, including the
best paper prizes from the Journal of Finance, the Review
of Financial Studies, and the Journal of Financial Economics, as
well as from practitioner association. Previously she served as an editor
of the Review
of Financial Studies, a Finance Department Editor at Management
Science, and an Associate Editor at the Journal of Finance. Professor Jiang
received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago in 2001. She was
the Arthur F. Burns Professor of Free and Competitive Enterprise at Columbia
Business School up to 2022, where she served as the Vice Dean for Curriculum
and Programs and a member of the Provost Faculty Advisory Committee.