Professor T.J. Wong is the Dean at the Faculty of Business Administration and the Chair Professor of Accountancy of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He is also the Director of the Center for Institutions and Governance at CUHK. He received his B.A. in Economics (summa cum laude) from Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, and MBA and Ph.D. degrees from UCLA. Before joining CUHK, he has taught at the University of Maryland - College Park, USA, and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Professor Wong has published numerous research articles in top finance and accounting journals such as Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, Contemporary Accounting Research and Auditing: A Journal of Theory and Practice. His research was featured in the Wall Street Journal, the Asian Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Globe and Mail, the South China Morning Post, Hong Kong Economic Journal, the ACCA Journal and Journal of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong, and was used in the U.S. congressional testimony on Securities Fraud Litigation. Professor Wong serves in the editorial board of Review of Accounting Studies, Auditing: Journal of Theory and Practice, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Journal of Business, Finance and Accounting, and as a senior research fellow in the Global Corporate Governance Academic Network at Yale University. He is also the president of the China Accounting Professor Association of North America, 2006-2007.

Updated August 2008

Deputy Director
Professor Joseph Fan

Joseph Fan is a Professor at the School of Accountancy and a joint Professor at the Department of Finance, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He received his Ph.D. degree in finance at the University of Pittsburgh in 1996. Before joining CUHK in September 2004, he was on faculty at the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (1997-2004) and the University of Hong Kong (1996-1997). Joseph’s main research and teaching areas are corporate governance, corporate finance, and organizational economics. He is particularly interested in researching on how institutional factors interact with accounting, finance, and governance of firms. He has presented his research in numerous educational institutions and leading international conferences, and has published his works in world top international academic journals, including the Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Business, Journal of Corporate Finance, and Journal of Finance. His corporate governance research has been featured by various business press, including The Economist, the Asian Wall Street Journal, and the South China Morning Post. As the Deputy Director of the Center for Institutions and Governance at CUHK, Joseph devotes himself to promote high quality research on corporate governance issues in China and East Asia. Joseph’s current research project includes the succession of family firms in East Asia, and the roles of public sector governance in corporate finance and governance in China. Joseph has consulting activities with the World Bank and Asian Development Bank. He is a member of Asian Finance Association, American Finance Association, and Financial Management Association. He is married with two children.

Research Fellows
Jun Huang
Mingyi Hung
Ming Jian
Hongbin Li
Oliver Rui
Lijun Xia
Qian Wang
Tianyu Zhang

Research Assistants
Xianjie He
Danmeng Li
Mochou Li
Flora Siu
Hualin Wan
Samantha Wong
Tianshu Zhang
Huan Zou

Project Manager
Ellen Lin