Editorial board

Lee Dadu is the founding partner of B2Fintech Technology Company, which aims to the integration and innovation of blockchain and 5G technology in financial and industrial fields. Mr. Lee is the co-president and researcher of the Cultural and Finance Research Centre of Shanghai Jiao Tong University; the president of China Enterprise Reputation & Credibility Association (Overseas).

He received his master degree from Nankai University and his EMBA from Guanghua School of Management, Peking University.

Leon Zhao is currently Chair Professor in Information Systems, City University of Hong Kong (CityU), where he was Head of Information Systems from 2009 to 2015. Before joining CityU, He was Interim Head and Eller Professor in MIS, University of Arizona. He holds Ph.D. in Information Systems from Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley. He is currently director of the CityU Center on Global Internet Finance (since 2015), the CityUSRI Lab on Enterprise Process Innovation and Computing (since 2007), and CityUCRI Center on Blockchain-centric Business Innovation (since 2017). His research has been funded by CityU, NSF, NSFC, RGC, SAP, IBM, Shenzhen Government among others; as PI, he has received over 20 million HKD in total research funding (including two recent grants on blockchain). He received IBM Faculty Award at the University of Arizona in 2005 and Chang Jiang Scholar Chair Professorship at Tsinghua University in 2009. His research is in information technology and applications, with a special focus on FinTech and Blockchain. He has been co-editor of Springer journal on Financial Innovation, Senior Editor of Decision Support Systems, and Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Service Computing, ACM Transactions on MIS, and Electronic Commerce Research and Applications among others. Since 2003, He has co-edited over 20 special issues in various academic journals; most recently, he is co-editor of Big Data Special Issue for MIS Quarterly (published in December 2016) and co-editor of FinTech for Information Systems Research (to be completed in 2020). He has chaired numerous conferences and is the lead founder of several academic conferences including China Summer Workshop on Information Management (since 2007) and International Conference on Smart Finance (since 2016).

Mr. Mirage Li got his Ph.D. degree in Physics from Princeton University in 2007, and worked on Wall Street as a strategist and later as a trader.

In 2014, he founded FH Technologies, a firm focusing on High-Frequency Trading. From late 2017, Mirage started trading cryptocurrencies and developed a keen interest in the application of blockchain technologies. He then founded Bit Connection Company Limited in Hong Kong; a company focused on the technological service in Blockchain technologies.

Dr. Quanjian Gao is the founder and president of GOSS Institute of Research Management, Chairman of GOSS Forum, and Adjunct Professor at College of Business, City University of Hong Kong. He received his DBA from University of Manchester in 2016. His study concerns Decision Making for Private Equity Investment. He intends to develop the Evidential Reasoning rule into an analytical tool to significantly improve the success of financial investment strategies. He has made some achievements in his research and has published a number of relevant academic articles.

Dr. Gao founded the semi-academic journal Crypto Review in 2019. His recent projects focus on the applications of Blockchain and crypto technology on business practices.

Other senior positions held by Dr. Gao include Director of Feng Zikai International Cultural Association, Convener of Hong Kong Dialogues on the Development of Sino-Japanese Relations, Executive President of Warton Economic Institute in Shanghai, Executive Chairman of China’s Top 100 Listed Companies Summit Forum and Editor-in-Chief of Private Equity Review. He used to be the Management Board Member of Risk Management Institute (RMI) at National University of Singapore, and Senior Advisor of American Planning Association (APA).

Yanzhi Li is a professor at College of Business, City University of Hong Kong, jointly appointed by Management Sciences and Marketing. Prof Li received his bachelor’s degree in computer science and technology from Tsinghua University in 2002 and PhD degree in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2006. He is interested in developing analytics algorithms for practice-triggered challenging problems and designing technology-driven business models, including blockchain based business innovations. He has provided consulting services to firms in Hong Kong and mainland China and is currently working on data-driven projects spanning logistics, retailing, e-commerce and healthcare.

Dr. YAO Qian is the Chief Executive Officer of China Securities Depository and Clearing Corporation Limited (CSDC). He is also serving as the Research Fellow at the Financial Research Centre of the Counselors’ Office of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China and the Secretary General of China Financial Standardization Technical Committee.

Before joining CSDC, he served consecutive positions as the Deputy Director General and Counsel of the Technology Department of the People’s Bank of China (PBoC), Director General of Institute of Digital Money of PBoC, and Deputy Director General of PBoC Credit Reference Centre.

He has published around 150 papers and 7 books and holds more than 100 patents. He has been awarded provincial and ministerial first prizes for his outstanding contribution in promoting new technology development and application in the banking sector.

YAO Qian holds a Doctor of Engineering degree. He is a professorate senior engineer and a Ph.D. supervisor.

Dr. Zhang is currently a Senior Economist at Bates White Economic Consulting, a litigation consulting firm based in Washington, DC. He is an expert in the economic mechanism design, cryptocurrency and especially the blockchain technical features of Bitcoin’s ecosystem.

Before he joined Bates Whites, he was an Assistant Professor of Finance at College of Business at City University of Hong Kong. He joined CityU in 2014 after receiving his Ph.D. from Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. His dissertation is about measuring informed trading in limit order markets. Before doctoral study, Dr. Zhang obtained his M.A. in Economics from Indiana University, and B.S. in Mathematics from Zhejiang University.

Dr. Zhang specializes in Financial Market Microstructure, Investment, and Derivatives. His current research focuses on informed trading, market liquidity, leverage, and their impact on security pricing and investment decisions. Dr. Zhang has taught Algorithmic Trading and Option Pricing at CityU, and serves as faculty advisor of CityU’s award winning delegation to Rotman International Trading Competition.

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