Prof. Qingwei Wang

Keynote Speaker, Head of Accounting and Finance, Cardiff Business School, UK

Qingwei Wang holds the Personal Chair of Finance at Cardiff Business School. He joined Cardiff Business School as a Senior Lecturer in September 2014. He previously worked as a Lecturer in Finance at Bangor Business School, and a researcher at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW, Mannheim, Germany). He has engaged in projects with Deutsche Bank, German Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour, and German Science Foundation.

Qingwei is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He is also the co-director of Cardiff Fintech Research Group, the former director of Cardiff Empirical Finance Group and Centre for China Business Research. He serves as an editorial board member of British Accounting Review, an associate editor of Finance Research Letters and The European Journal of Finance, and a Guest Editor for the special issue on “Fintech and Financial Markets” at The European Journal of Finance. He has published in many journals, including Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Empirical Finance, European Financial Management, and International Journal of Forecasting.