This fall, Peking University HSBC Business School (PHBS) welcomes 10 new faculty members from around the world. Joining the school’s “AI for Business” journey, they bring outstanding scholarship in economics, finance, and management — along with diverse international experience and research perspectives — to the PHBS community.

Minsoo Lee

Professor of Practice in Economics

Education:

Ph.D. in Economics, Washington State University

M.A. in Economics and Applied Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles

B.A. in Mathematics and B.A. in Political Science (minor), St. John’s University

Research Interests: Macroeconomics, Development Economics, International Economics, Economic Policy, Asian Economy and Finance, Economic Growth and Development

*To officially join in October

Harsh Kumar Jha

Associate Professor of Management (UK Campus)

Education:

Ph.D. in Management, University of California, Irvine (2017)

M.Sc. in Management Research, University of Oxford (2009)

P.G.D.M. (Equivalent to M.B.A.), Symbiosis International University, India (2004)

B.A. in Sociology, University of Delhi (2001)

Research Interests: Organizational Behavior & Theory; Entrepreneurship; Diversity, Equity & Inclusion; Social Issues in Management

*To officially join in September

Kenneth Chan Kok Fong

Assistant Professor of Economics

Education:

Ph.D. in Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara (2024)

M.A. in Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara (2021)

B.Soc.Sci. in Economics, National University of Singapore (2020)

Research Interests: Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Economic Theory, Labor Economics, Health Economics

Gao Jing

Assistant Professor of Finance

Education:

Ph.D. in Finance, University of Minnesota (2026)

M.S. in Economics, Renmin University of China (2020)

M.S. in Finance, University of Minnesota (2020)

B.A. in Finance, Shandong University (2017)

Research Interests: Financial Institutions, Macro Finance, Machine Learning, Corporate Finance

Hao Yulin

Assistant Professor of Management

Education:

Ph.D. in Quantitative Marketing, University of Rochester (2026)

Research Master in Economics, Sciences Po, Paris Institute of Political Studies (2020)

B.A. in Economics, Sichuan University (2018)

Research Interests: Quantitative Marketing, Platform Economics, Creator Economy, Structural Estimation, Machine Learning

Adel Khusnulgatin

Assistant Professor of Finance

Education:

Ph.D. in Finance, University of Toronto (2026)

M.A. in Economics, New Economic School, Russia (2020)

B.Sc. in Mathematics and Physics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (2017)

Research Interests: Private Markets, Entrepreneurial Finance, Economics of Innovation, Law and Finance, Corporate Finance

Li Yiliang

Assistant Professor of Economics

Education:

Ph.D. in Economics, University of Oxford (2022)

M.Phil. in Economics, University of Oxford (2018)

B.Com., University of Melbourne (2015)

Research Interests: Macroeconomics, International Trade, Supply Chains, Geoeconomics

Wang Yusu

Assistant Professor of Management

Education:

Ph.D. in Marketing, The University of Chicago (2026)

B.A. in Economics and B.B.A. in Management, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (2019)

Research Interests: Consumer Behavior, Human-AI Interaction, AI-Driven Layoffs, Financial Resources, Corporate Social Impact, Financial Decision-Making, Corporate Social Responsibility, Experiments, Regression, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing

Wu Ying

Assistant Professor of Management

Education:

Ph.D. in OBHRM, University of Illinois Chicago (2026)

Ph.D. in Management Science, University of Science and Technology of China (2020)

B.A. in Real Estate Management, Central China Normal University (2014)

B.A. in Finance (minor), Wuhan University (2014)

Research Interests: Newcomer Socialization, Artificial Intelligence in Management, Leadership

Yan Sen

Assistant Professor of Management

Education:

Ph.D. in Management, University of Colorado, Boulder (2026)

B.S. in Financial Management and B.S. in Computer Science (minor), Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (2021)

Research Interests: Sociotechnical AI Design, Agentic AI, Large Language Model, Psychometric Methodology

As of the fall 2026 semester, PHBS has 85 full-time faculty members, over 97% of whom hold doctoral degrees from world-class universities. International faculty account for 23.5% of the total, representing countries including the United States, South Korea, Italy, Russia, Colombia, Singapore, Iran, India, Australia, and Germany.

⟡ Chinese names are in traditional order: family name, then given name

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