On April 1, 2017, the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China announced the list of 2016 Chang Jiang Scholars. Professor WANG Hao, Department of Finance, and Professor XUE Jian, Department of Accounting, at Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management (Tsinghua SEM), were named Chang Jiang Young Scholars.

Professor WANG Hao is an Associate Professor of the Department of Finance at Tsinghua SEM. He joined the SEM in 2007 after receiving his doctoral degree in finance from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Professor WANG’s primary research interests are ambiguity and risk management, and the Chinese financial markets. Professor Wang teaches "Fixed Income Securities" and "Corporate Finance" at the School. He has published in international journals such as Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Banking and Finance, Financial Management and Journal of Futures Markets.

Professor WANG Hao

Professor XUE Jian is an Associate professor of Department of Accounting at Tsinghua SEM. Her research interests include financial accounting, information efficiency of capital markets, analyst forecasts. Her papers have been published in Journal of Accounting and Economics, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, China Accounting and Finance Research (Hong Kong), Financial Research, Nankai Business Review, China Accounting Review, etc. She got several prizes in excellent teaching from SEM and runner-up of Franklin Prize for Teaching Excellence in 2006 from HKUST.

Professor XUE Jian

Currently, there are a total of 13 Chang Jiang Scholars in Tsinghua SEM, including 9 Distinguished Professors, 1 Visiting Professor and 3 Young Scholars.

The Chang Jiang Scholars program was founded in 1998 to bring eminent scholars from across the world to Chinese universities to teach and conduct research with prominent academicians at the nation’s leading universities.