Dr. Zhiwu Chen is a professor of finance at Yale University. He is also Special-Term Visiting Professor at School of Economics at Peking University, and Visiting Professor and HKU-AXA Senior Fellow on China’s Market Reform at The University of Hong Kong. His research covers finance theory, economic/social history, emerging markets, and China’s economy and capital markets. Professor Chen started his career by publishing research papers in top economics and finance journals on topics related to financial markets and theories of asset pricing. Around 2001, Professor Chen began to expand his research beyond mature markets by investigating market development and institution-building issues in the context of China’s transition process and other emerging markets. He has successfully led efforts to construct historical financial and social databases from China’s historical archives and written extensively on economic/social history topics.  In 2013, he started the annual Summer School for Quantitative History at Tsinghua University and continues to organize it at Peking University, with the goal of promoting quantitative historical research in China and beyond. Professor Chen is on the International Advisory Board of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), and Chief Academic Advisor to two 10-episode CCTV documentary series, “Wall Street” and “Money”. He is on the board of directors at PetroChina, Bank of Communications, and Noah Holdings. He was a member on the Expert Committee for the formation of the China Investment Corporation. His work has been featured in newspapers and magazines in the United States, Hong Kong, China and other countries. He is a frequent contributor to media publications in China on topics of economic policy, market development and legal reform. His list of books published in China includes: How Is Wealth Created? (2005), Media, Law and Markets (2005), Why are the Chinese Industrious and Yet Not Rich (2008), Irrational Overconfidence (2008), The Logic of Finance (2009), 24 Wealth Lectures (2009), and Assessing China’s Economic Growth of the Past 30 Years (2010), and The Logic of Finance 2: Path to Individual Freedom (2015). He has received a number of book awards in China and Hong Kong.