Prof Chang Xin

Xin CHANG is a Professor of Finance, Director of the Centre for Sustainable Finance and Innovation (CSFI), and the Associate Dean (Research) overseeing PhD programs and research activities at Nanyang Business School. From 2015 to 2017, He was a tenured University Reader in Financial Economics at Cambridge Judge Business School of the University of Cambridge, J M Keynes Fellow in Financial Economics, a Fellow of Darwin College, and a Research Fellow of Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance.  From 2004 to 2008, he was a Lecturer and then tenured Senior Lecturer in Finance at the University of Melbourne in Australia. 

He specializes in corporate finance, especially sustainable finance, capital structure, mergers and acquisitions, and stock valuation. He taught various courses to undergraduate, honors, master, and PhD students at HKUST, the University of Melbourne, the University of Cambridge, and NTU. 

Xin was awarded the Dean's Award for Research Excellence in 2006 and the Dean's Certificate for Excellence in Teaching in 2007 at the University of Melbourne. At NTU, he was the Researcher of the Year for the Division of Banking and Finance in 2009, the MBA Teacher of the Year in 2011, and the Teacher of the Year for the Division of Banking and Finance in 2013. He also won the Peter Brownell Award for Best Publication in Accounting and Finance in 2007, the Best Paper awards at the 16th SFM Conference in 2008, the 19th SFM Conference in 2011, the 4th World Business Ethics Forum in 2012, and TCFA's (The Chinese Finance Association) best paper award on corporate finance. He received the inaugural Best PhD Supervisor Award (the Graduate College Mentoring Award) from NTU in 2020.

Xin earned his Ph.D. in Finance in 2004 from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). His educational background also includes a Master's degree from the PBC School of Finance and a Bachelor's degree from the School of Economics and Management of Tsinghua University.