Wei Jiang

Wei Jiang is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Finance at Emory University's Goizueta Business School, and Vice Dean of Faculty and Research. She is a Research Associate of the NBER in the departments of Corporate Finance and Law & Economics. She is currently the Vice President of the American Finance Association (AFA) and was recently the President of the Society of Financial Studies (SFS).

Professor Jiang's main research interests lie in corporate governance, institutional investors, and technology. She has published extensively in top economics, finance, and law journals, and received numerous awards for research excellence, including the best paper prizes from the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies, and the Journal of Financial Economics, as well as from practitioner association. Previously she served as an editor of the Review of Financial Studies, a Finance Department Editor at Management Science, and an Associate Editor at the Journal of Finance.

Professor Jiang received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago in 2001. She was the Arthur F. Burns Professor of Free and Competitive Enterprise at Columbia Business School up to 2022, and was the Vice Dean for Curriculum, Instruction, and Programs.