Meet Our Team

Yao Kai

Fudan University

Kai Yao is a Professor of Management at Fudan University School of Management and the leading director of Fudan University’s Research Center for Global Innovative Talent Development. He serves as the Chief Expert of the Shanghai Talent Theory Research Base and is a renowned expert in China’s talent studies. He has long been engaged in academic and consulting research in the fields of human resources management, innovation and entrepreneurship. More than 60 research projects, including important ones for the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Social Science Fund of China, and the Shanghai Municipal Government for decision-making and consulting, among others, have been overseen or finished by him. Professor Yao’s recent research examines the talent management in science and technology field in China, in particular, he has contributed profoundly to the establishment of talent highland in Yangtze River Delta. Professor Yao’s book, Research on the Development and Flow Strategy of Talent Resources in Shanghai Global Cities (Fudan University, Press, 2019) presents a systematic and comprehensive evaluation of talent development in Shanghai. In addition, more than 70 research findings of Professor Yao have been published in prestigious academic journals and China’s mainstream press. His perspectives have recently been recognized by China’s Ministry of Science and Technology and China’s Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security.
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Will Cong

Cornell University

Will Cong is the Rudd Family Professor of Management, a tenured Professor of Finance, and the founding director of FinTech at Cornell Initiative. He is also a Finance editor at the Management Science, Research Associate at the NBER, cofounder of two international research forums (ABFR and CBER), and was formerly a Kauffman Junior Fellow, Poets & Quants World Best Business School Professor, George P. Shultz Scholar, and Lieberman Fellow. He taught at the University of Chicago after earning his Finance Ph.D. and MS in Statistics from Stanford, and A.M. in Physics jointly with A.B. in Math and Physics from Harvard. He studies applied theory, asset pricing, corporate finance, and information economics, including novel applications of information design in financial markets. Since 2014, he pioneered interdisciplinary research on token omics, AI for finance, blockchain forensics and design, and how digitization and big data interact with and influence competition, growth, and entrepreneurship. His work has been recognized with numerous best paper prizes and grants and has been widely circulated and adopted in the industry. A highly sought-after keynote speaker at various international conferences and world forums, he advises leading FinTech firms and quant funds, as well as government and regulatory agencies around the globe.
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Shen Huangnan

Fudan University

Dr Huangnan Shen is currently the Dean and President of the Maqiao Institute for Digital Industry Development (MIDID) in Shanghai. He is also an assistant professor at School of Management at Fudan University. He is affiliated as an associate in the Growth Lab at Harvard Kennedy School where he is the first Chinese research associate there. Meanwhile, he is also in charge of courses at the Fudan Sci-Tech Innovation Entrepreneurship Camp and the MBA program. Dr Shen is a fellow at the Research Institute of Chinese Economy, Fudan University, a visiting research fellow at the Fudan-Pingan Research Institute for Macroeconomy, and a research fellow at the Research Center for State-Owned Economy, Jilin University. Additionally, he works as the co-founder and a member of the board of directors of Core China Research Center at the University of Navarra, Spain, which he co-founded with Prof. Pedro Nueno, the founding president of CEIBS, former president of the International Management Association. To date, Dr. Shen has published over 50 papers, including journal papers, working papers, conference papers, and monograph chapters. Prof. Shen has published in journals such as China Economic Review, Eurasian Business Review, Managerial and Decision Economics, Applied Economics, Pacific Basin Finance Journal, Review of Development Economics, International Finance, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Economic Modelling, Contemporary Economic Policy, World Economy, Journal of Asian Economics, Journal of Economic Surveys, China and World Economy, Harvard CID Working  Paper Series, and LSE Economic History Working Paper Series. He was previously a visiting post-doctoral fellow at Harvard Growth Lab. He obtained his PhD in Development Economics at SOAS University of London and MSc in Economics and Management at London School of Economics and Political Science.
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