Wei Jiang

Wei Jiang is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Finance and Vice Dean of Faculty and Research at Emory University's Goizueta Business School. She is a Research Associate of the NBER. She is the President-Elect of the American Finance Association (AFA) in 2025, and was previously the President of the Society of Finance Studies (SFS). Professor Jiang's main research interests lie in corporate governance, institutional investors, technology and financial markets.  She has published extensively in top economics, finance, and law journals, and her research has been frequently featured in major media. She received dozens of awards for research excellence, including the best paper prizes from Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, and Journal of Financial Economics. 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 PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago in 2001, and joined the Finance faculty of Columbia Business School in the same year. She was the Arthur F. Burns Professor of Free and Competitive Enterprise at Columbia Business School until 2022.