Business Studies Panel (Joint Research Schemes)
(as at 30 April 2026)
Member Sphere of Interest

Chairman

Professor Nancy Wong*

Culture; materialism; consumer decision making; financial decisions; sustainability

Deputy Chairman

Professor Daniel Cohen*

Financial accounting; disclosures; empirical analysis of financial reporting

Members

Professor Kimmy Wa Chan

Services Marketing, Customer Relationship Management

Professor Hong Chen*

Clean Energy Market and Finance, Carbon Reduction in Supply Chain, Modeling, Optimization and Empirical Analysis of Supply Chain Management, Healthcare Management, Corporate Finance, Real Estate

Professor Xiao-Ping CHEN*

Organizational Communication, Team Diversity and Inclusion, Entrepreneurial Passion

Professor Bin Gu*

Information system management; data analytics; online platforms; mobile commerce

Professor Zhaoyang Gu

Accounting, Auditing, Corporate Finance

Professor Cathy Hsu

Consumer behavior, Branding, Consumer psychology, Cross-cultural studies, Service quality and marketing, Tourism and hospitality management

Professor Xu Huang

Leadership, Power, Proactive and Abnormal Work Behaviors, Employee Well-Being, Cross-Cultural Psychology, Management Issues in China

Professor Kai-lung Hui

Cybercrime economics and policy, Information security, Information privacy, IT policy, FinTech, Electronic commerce, Digital platforms

Professor Sara Kim

Marketing, Consumer behaviour, Consumer decision making, Service quality and marketing, Implicit theories and attribution theory

Professor Chak Fu Lam

Organisational citizenship behaviours, Leadership, Creativity, Wellbeing

Professor Jingyuan Li

Economic, finance and uncertainty theory

Professor Yingying Li

Statistical learning for financial big data, Large portfolio analytics, Individualized asset allocation, High-dimensional financial data, Vast volatility matrix modeling and inference high-frequency financial data, volatility estimation and prediction

Professor Liping Liang

Operations and Supply Chain Management, Incentive Mechanism Design, Cooperative Game Theory, Data Analytics

Professor Houmin Yan

Risk modeling and analysis, Machine learning and algorithms, Stochastic models, Supply chain management

Professor Tzachi Zach*

Accounting, Finance, and Economics

Secretary

Ms Edith CHOI

Assistant Secretary-General (Research)1, UGC

* Non-local Members