Topic: The Determinants of ESG Ratings
Speaker: Professor Dragon Yongjun TANG, University of Hong Kong, China
Time and Date: 10:00, Sep. 28th, 2021
Platform: Tencent Meeting ID: 890-454-867
Speaker Profile:
Dragon Yongjun TANG, professor of finance and doctoral supervisor of the University of Hong Kong, has been the managing editor of the International Review of Finance since 2020, and the director of the Department of Finance of the University of Hong Kong from 2017-2020. He is in the Capacity Building Working Group of Hong Kong Centre for Green and Sustainable Finance. He has served as an Academic Expert Consultant of Asian Development Bank, And a Research Fellow of Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research, HKMA. He has won the Best Paper Award at international academic conferences for many times, including the Best Paper Award of Global Alliance for Sustainable Finance and Investment (GRASFI) in 2021, and has received many research funding support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the General Research Fund of Research Grant Council of Hong Kong, the International Climate Works Foundation, the U.S. Q-Group, the Swiss BSI Gamma Foundation and the Canadian IFSID. He won the Research Output Prize of University of Hong Kong in 2013 and the Outstanding Researcher Award of Faculty of Business and Economics of University of Hong Kong in 2015. He directed his doctoral student to win the first Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award in Chinese Economics.
