To download a PDF version, click here. Wei Jiang is Professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia Business School. She is currently the Chair of the Finance sub-division, and served on the faculty advisory boards of the Chazen Institute of International Business, the Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing, and the Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy. Jiang received her B.A. and M.A. in international economics from Fudan University (China), and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago in 2001 after which she joined Columbia Business School. She has since taught in the Master, MBA or EMBA programs at Chicago, Columbia, Wharton, and Berkeley. She was an investment banking associate at Prudential Securities (Shanghai) before pursuing her Ph.D. degree. Professor Jiang’s main research interest lies in the strategies of institutional investors (such as hedge funds and mutual funds) and their role in corporate decisions and financial markets. Her research has been published in top academic journals as well as featured in major media, including the Wall Street Journal, Economist, Institutional Investors, Money, Fortune, Business Week, New York Times and Financial Times. She received the Smith-Breeden Distinguished Paper Prize from the Journal of Finance, multiple best paper prizes from the Western Finance Association, Chicago Quantitative Alliance, UK Inquire, the Q-Group, and the Wharton School Terker Family Prize in Investment Research. She is currently the Finance Area Editor of Management Science, and associate editor at the Journal of Finance and Review of Financial Studies. Professor Jiang has taught various courses in corporate finance and is a five-time recipient of teaching excellence awards at Columbia Business School since 2005. Most recently she was voted by the Class of 2013 MBA students to receive the Singhvi Prize for Scholarship, awarded to a full-time faculty member for his/her dedication to teaching and the ability to communicate knowledge.