Li Jin

Li Jin currently serves as Chair Professor of Finance at Guanghua School of Management of Peking University. In 2015 he stepped down as Professor of Emerging Market Finance at Oxford University's Saïd Business School but continues to teach EMBA courses.

Before he joined Saïd Business School and GSM, Li taught at the Harvard Business School from 2001 to 2012. In that capacity he has taught the second year MBA elective courses on 'Investment and Finance in Emerging Markets' and 'International Financial Management' and the first year MBA required courses on 'Finance I' and 'Finance II', as well as in various senior executive programs. His primary research interest is in empirical corporate finance and empirical asset pricing. His current researches study emerging financial markets. He has also studied the compensation of corporate managers, the trading patterns of institutional investors such as hedge funds, mutual funds and pension funds, and the comparison of securities markets efficiency across countries.

Li has published articles at leading academic journals including Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Accounting And Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, etc. He has won research rewards such as FAME Research Prize, PanAgora Quantitative Research Award, and Best Paper Award in TCFA Conference, Financial Management Association European Conference, and Global Financial Association Annual Conference, etc.

Li received his PhD in finance from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 2001, and a bachelor's degree in economics from Fudan University in 1992. Before entering graduate school, he was a full time faculty member at Fudan University, Department of International Finance.