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Xin (Simba) CHANG

 

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 Short Biography

 

Xin CHANG is currently a Professor of Finance at Nanyang Business School of Nanyang Technological University (NTU).  He is also the Associate Dean (Research) overseeing research issues and programs at Nanyang Business School and the director of the Centre for Sustainable Finance and Innovation (CSFI) at NTU.

 

Xin currently holds several senior editorial and professional service roles in the finance research community, including Associate Editor of Management Science, Board Member of the Asian Finance Association, and Fellow of the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research (ABFER). His editorial experience spans a wide range of peer-reviewed journals, with ongoing or recent appointments at International Review of Finance, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, China Finance Review International, International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance, Accounting Open, Journal of Internet and Digital Economics, Risk Sciences, and the Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies.

 

From 2015 to 2017, he was a University Senior Lecturer in Finance and then a tenured University Reader in Financial Economics at Cambridge Judge Business School of the University of CambridgeAt the University of Cambridge, he was also a J M Keynes Fellow in Financial Economics, a Fellow of Darwin College, and a Research Fellow of Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance. From 2004 to 2008, he was a Lecturer and then a tenured Senior Lecturer in Finance at the University of Melbourne in Australia. 

 

He specializes in corporate finance, especially capital structure, innovation, corporate social responsibility, mergers and acquisitions, and equity valuation. He has taught finance courses to Undergraduates, Honours, Master's, and PhD students at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the University of Melbourne, Nanyang Technological University, and the University of Cambridge.   

 

Xin was awarded the Dean's Award for Research Excellence in 2006 and the Dean's Certificate for Excellence in Teaching in 2007 at the University of Melbourne.  At NTU, he was the Researcher of the Year in the Division of Banking and Finance in 2009, the MBA Teacher of the Year in 2011, and the Teacher of the Year in the Division of Banking and Finance in 2013.  He also won the Peter Brownell Award for best publication in Accounting and Finance in 2007, the best paper awards at the 16th SFM conference in 2008, the 19th SFM conference in 2011, and the 4th World Business Ethics Forum in 2012.  He is also the ¡°Best Professor in Financial Management¡± award winner in the third Asia¡¯s Best B-School Awards in 2012.  In 2013, he received the TCFA (The Chinese Finance Association) Best Paper Award in corporate finance. Recently, he was the awardee of the inaugural Best PhD Supervisor Award at NTU (2020), and received the First Prize for Poster Presentation at the Research Integrity Conference in Singapore (2023), the Best Paper Award at the 2nd Asia Sustainability and ESG Summit in Indonesia (2024), and the Best Paper Award at the International Business and Economy Conference (2026).

 

He earned a PhD in Finance in 2004 from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST).  His educational background also includes a Master of Philosophy in Money and Banking from the Graduate School of People's Bank of China and a Bachelor of Engineering in Management Information Systems from the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University.

 

Xin has an informal name - "Simba", since he is fond of big cats, especially lions.  His main interests are soccer, music, and entertaining his boys.  In his free time, he enjoys researching corporate finance.

 

 

Contact Information

Xin CHANG (Simba)

Professor of Finance; Associate Dean (Research)

Division of Finance, Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University
Office: ABS-06-038, Wee Cho Yaw Plaza, 91 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639956

Tel: (65) 6790-4807; Fax: (65) 6791-3697

Email: changxin@ntu.edu.sg; Personal Website: https://sites.google.com/site/simbachangxin

 

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