Dr. Chao REN

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Dr. Chao REN

Associate Director

Dr. Chao REN is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong. She specializes in applied climatology and climate design, who uses GIS, and spatial modelling methods and remote sensing techniques to study urban environmental performance and develop climate response design strategies and guidelines.

Chao’s multi-dimensional, cross-disciplinary research has transferred scientific data into new knowledge to address social needs, enhance policy-making and support evidence-based designs in China, Taiwan, Singapore, The Netherlands and France since 2006. Chao’s publication with focuses ranging from examining the relationship between urban climate and urban morphological characteristics, developing an urban climatic mapping system and a wind corridor plan, to analysing human thermal comfort and public health risk for subtropical high-density cities. Her latest book is ‘Urban Climate Science for Planning Health Cities’ published in 2021. She is named in the 2023 World’s Top 2% of Scientists List by Stanford University.

Chao serves as an Associate Editor for Urban Climate (2018-) and an Editorial Advisor for Cities & Health (2018-) and Advances in Climate Change Research (2020-), and is a member of Urban Climate Expert Team and the Study Group on Greenhouse Gas Monitoring and of the World Meteorology Organization. She also serves as the steering committee member of the Global Heat Health Information Network and the Strengthen Emergency Preparedness and Response Strategic Committee member of the Hong Kong Red Cross. She has also been elected as a Board Member of the International Association for Urban Climate (2017-2021). She has been involved in several international collaborative research reports, including the IPCC AR6 (Contributing Author of Chapter 6 Cities, Settlements and Key Infrastructure), Climate Change and Cities ARC3.3 (Lead Author of Chapter 2), the China report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change (Lead Author of WGII) and the 7th Global Environment Outlook (GEO-7) (Lead Author of Chapter 2) of UN Environment Programme.

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Prof. Thomas SCHMID

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Prof. Thomas SCHMID

Associate Director

Dr. Thomas SCHMID joined The University of Hong Kong as Assistant Professor in Finance in 2015. Before joining, he finished his dissertation in Finance and worked as Post-Doctoral Researcher at Technische Universität München. His main research area is empirical corporate finance. Currently he is working on projects which investigate the impact of labor rights, operating flexibility, and product market characteristics on firms’ financing decisions.

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Prof. David BISHOP

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Prof. David BISHOP

Associate Director

Mr. Bishop is a Principal Lecturer at the University of Hong Kong and the International MBA Program at Fudan University, Shanghai. He has broad legal experience in the United States and across Asia, particularly China. Mr. Bishop has worked on major real estate, private equity, financing, and M&A deals, and participated in numerous negotiations in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. He has also acted as outside counsel in connection with various corporate, technology, life sciences and commercial matters for MNCs operating in Asia.

In addition to a robust private legal experience, Mr. Bishop focuses significant time on activities and programs providing direct benefit to the community. He consults companies about their ethics, CSR, pro bono, and social entrepreneurship initiatives, and is founder and director of multiple non-profit companies. He and his students are constantly looking for commercial solutions to complex societal problems.

Mr. Bishop adopts a multicultural approach to teaching, aiming to broaden the students’ perspectives and help them to apply complex analysis to real-world legal, ethical, and business problems.

Mr. Bishop won the Outstanding Teacher Award for his postgraduate teaching for the 2011-2012 academic year.

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Prof. Jeffrey NG

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Prof. Jeffrey NG

Associate Director

Professor Jeffrey Ng has been a professor at The University of Hong Kong since July 2022. Prior to this appointment, he was an assistant professor at MIT Sloan School of Management from 2008 to 2012 and an associate professor at Singapore Management University School of Accountancy from 2012 to 2016, and a professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University from 2016 to 2022.

Professor Ng is interested in interdisciplinary research involving accounting issues. He has published in several top journals including Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, The Accounting Review, Review of Accounting Studies, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and Management Science. He is an associate editor at the European Accounting Review. He is on the Editorial Board of The Accounting Review and a member of the Business Studies Panel, Hong Kong Research Grants Council. His teaching interests include financial accounting, corporate reporting, and financial statement analysis.

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Prof. Junhong CHU

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Prof. Junhong CHU

Associate Director

Junhong Chu is a professor of marketing at the University of Hong Kong (HKU). Before joining HKU, she worked at the NUS Business School as a dean’s chair and a tenured associate professor of marketing and earlier at Peking University as an associate professor of economics. Professor Chu has also visited Harvard University as a research fellow and the University of Michigan as an associate professor.

Professor Chu is an empirical modeler, works on big data, and does quantitative research in marketing and industrial organization. Her research interests include platform markets and the sharing economy, e-commerce, social media, P2P markets, and distribution channels. She applies both the classical and Bayesian approach to study firm competition and consumer behavior.

Professor Chu’s research has been published in leading academic journals such as Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing Research, Management Science, Journal of Marketing, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Nature Human Behaviour, Population and Development Review, and Demography. She was an MSI (Marketing Science Institute) 2011 Young Scholar and has also won several research awards.

Professor Chu earned a BA in economics and a PhD in Law (Demography) from Peking University, and an MBA and PhD in Business Administration (Marketing) from the University of Chicago.

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Prof. Roni MICHAELY

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Prof. Roni MICHAELY

Co-Director

Roni is a professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship at the University of Hong Kong and a research member at the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI). He has extensive teaching experience with MBA, executive MBA, DBA and PhD students, and has been recognized as one of the most prolific academic researchers in finance. Roni is the co-founder of two startups and serves on the board of several others. He was a Director at the Israeli Securities Authority (ISA) from 1998 to 2003.

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Prof. Guojun HE

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Professor Guojun HE

Director

Guojun HE is an economist working on environmental, development, and governance issues. Currently, he is a professor in Economics at the University of Hong Kong (HKU). He serves as the director of HKU’s ESG Research Institute and the associate director of HKU’s Institute of China Economy. He holds a concurrent appointment at the Energy Policy Institute of the University of Chicago (EPIC) and leads research activities of its China center (EPIC-China).

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Prof. Hongbin CAI

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Professor Hongbin CAI

Dean, HKU Business School

Professor Hongbin Cai is the Dean of the HKU Business School and Chair of Economics. He received his B.A. in Mathematics from Wuhan University in 1988, his M.A. in Economics from Peking University in 1991, and his Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University in 1997.

From 1997 to 2005, he taught at the University of California, Los Angeles. From December 2010 to January 2017, he served as Dean of Guanghua School of Management, Peking University. He joined the HKU Business School in June 2017 and serves as the Dean since July 2017. He is a National Chang Jiang Scholar (awarded by Ministry of Education of China) and a National Outstanding Young Researcher (awarded by National Science Foundation of China). Professor Cai has published many academic papers in top international journals in economics and finance, in a wide range of areas including game theory, Chinese economy, industrial organization and corporate finance.

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