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Canon Professorship in Finance/Distinguished Professor of Finance
Division of
Banking and Finance
Nanyang Business School
Nanyang
Technological University
Block S3-01b-54, Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798
Tel: (+65) 6790-5662, Fax: (+65) 6791-3697
E-mail: jkkang@ntu.edu.sg
Short
Biography:
Dr. Jun-Koo KANG is Canon Professor/Distinguished
Professor of Finance at Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological
University (NTU). He is head of the division of banking and finance and former
founding executive director of the Insurance Risk and Finance Research Centre
at NBS. Prior to joining NTU, Dr. Kang was the MSU
Federal Credit Union Endowed Chair in Financial Institutions and Investments at
Michigan State University. His areas of research expertise include mergers and
acquisitions, corporate governance, ESG, capital raising, capital structure,
emerging financial markets, international finance, and banking. His research
has been published in leading finance, economics, and other business journals,
including Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial
Studies, American Economic Review, Journal of Financial and Quantitative
Analysis, Journal of Business, Accounting Review, Journal of International
Business Studies, and Pacific-Basin Finance Journal. He currently serves as an
associate editor of Financial Management, Japan and the World Economy, and
Journal of Financial Perspectives, and an editorial review board member of
Journal of International Business Studies. He is also a senior fellow and a
member of executive council of the Asia Bureau of Finance and Economics
Research, a research fellow of the Asian Institute of Corporate Governance, and
a member of World Economic Forum Expert Network, and was a co-editor of
Pacific-Basin Finance Journal from 2006 to 2022. Dr.
Kang received his Ph.D. in finance from the Ohio State University, his master of science in finance from the Iowa State University,
and his bachelor's degree in business administration from the Korea University.