Donor
Ms Christina Lee
Ms Christina Lee is currently Director of China Elite Risk Management and Actuarial Consulting Company Limited. Founded in Hong Kong in 2014, the company pursues a full array of businesses from insurance, actuarial consulting, statistics to risk management. It specialises in the provision of innovative and efficient Internet insurance consulting services, which includes using big-data to offer credit-risk evaluation services for insurance companies and e-commerce institutions.
A veteran investment and legal consultant equipped with years of experience, Ms Lee has reaped handsome harvests and enjoys great cachet in the investment sector. Answering Premier Li Keqiang's call for mass entrepreneurship and innovation at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos this year, Ms Lee has set up an angel investment fund of over RMB100 million for entrepreneurship and innovation. Tailor-made for fledgling young entrepreneurs, the fund provides them with financial backing and value-added services to pave the way for a bright future.
Ms Lee's diverse investment portfolio encompasses the areas of financial services, FinTech, tourism and education, with the drive towards a sound socio-economic system at its core. Highlighting the importance of a pragmatic approach in business operations, Ms Lee urges potential young innovators to strive to exemplify the "spirit of craftsmanship" with Chinese characteristics and to remain ever vigilant to fulfil social responsibility.
Appointee
Professor J. C. Lin
Professor J. C. Lin is Chair Professor of the School of Accounting and Finance. He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from the University of Iowa in 1988. Before joining The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) in 2015, he was the holder of Lloyd F. Collette Endowed Chair of Financial Services at Louisiana State University in the United States. An award-winning teacher and researcher, Professor Lin has taught at universities in the United States, the United Kingdom, Finland, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the Chinese Mainland. Complementing his publishing credentials, he is not only an Associate Editor of both Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies and Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies, but is also on the editorial board of Journal of Financial Studies.
Professor Lin has wide-ranging research interests conducive to understanding how financial markets work, how firms make decisions and operate, and whether investors behave rationally. Notable channels for his research outputs comprise prestigious academic journals in finance and accounting, including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Accounting Review, and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. Particularly noteworthy are his works that shed light on how differences in market structure affect financial markets in dealing with private information; how firms use dividend policy, why they engage in stock splits, and when they issue new equity; as well as insider trading.
This Endowed Professorship will enable Professor Lin to engage in more advanced research in investor behaviour, firms' decision-making and their interactions with financial markets, and also in the creation of useful knowledge for knowledge transfer. With the support of the endowment, he is also planning to engage young scholars in research collaboration and to elevate the School of Accounting and Finance's research to new heights.
