Personal Chair of Banking and Risk Analytics
Roles and Responsibilities
- Course Leader for Introduction to Risk Management in Banks & Topics in Banking Innovation
Background
Dr. Yizhe Dong, is a Professor (Personal Chair) in Banking and Risk Analytics at the University of Edinburgh Business School. Prior to joining Edinburgh, he worked at Aberdeen University, Aberystwyth University and Durham University, respectively. He received his PhD from Loughborough University, MSc and MA from Cardiff University and Nottingham University, and BSc from South China University of Technology.
He is currently serving as a Joint Editor of the Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies and Associate Editor of the European Journal of Finance. He also acted as a Guest Editor of the European Journal of Finance, British Accounting Review, Information Systems Frontiers, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, Economic Modelling, China Economic Review, Emerging Market Finance and Trade, etc. He served as the 33rd President of the Chinese Economic Association (UK/Europe). He also received awards for Excellence in Doctoral Supervision and other teaching awards in past years.
Dong has co-organised a number of international conferences on the themes of:
- General finance and accounting
- Risk management risk modelling
- AI applications in finance and banking
- Climate change, Climate investment and finance
- Financial stability
- Microfinance and rural finance
Research Interests
Yizhe’s main research interests are corporate finance and governance, credit risk assessment, ML/Generative AI/Multimodal LLM for Finance, climate risk and green finance, banking and financial institutions, and equity valuation. He has published over 30 papers in leading international journals such as Nature Food, Journal of Corporate Finance, European Journal of Operational Research, British Journal of Management, Journal of Financial Stability, British Accounting Review, European Journal of Finance, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, International Journal of Forecasting, Annals of Operations Research, amongst others.
Yizhe welcomes PhD applications from suitably qualified students to undertake the above-mentioned research areas.