Professor Chendi Zhang

Chendi Zhang is a Professor of Finance at the University of Exeter Business School, and currently Associate Dean for Research & Impact responsible for the School's research and impact strategy and faculty development across interdisciplinary themes. His research focuses on sustainable investing, corporate finance, and behavioural finance. He is the founding Director of Exeter Sustainable Finance Centre and Director and Treasurer of Global Research Alliance for Sustainable Finance and Investment.

His research has received funding from UKRI Natural Environment Research Council, British Academy, BNY Mellon, Royal Bank of Canada, and World Bank, and media coverage from the Economist, Wall Street Journal, and Forbes. His papers, published in Management Science, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Corporate Finance, Review of Corporate Finance Studies, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, and Journal of Banking and Finance, have been cited over 9,000 times.

He began his career working in investment banking after completing an undergraduate degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. After his PhD from Tilburg University in the Netherlands, he worked as a consultant for the Latin America and Caribbean region of the World Bank in Washington DC. He had been on Warwick Business School faculty for over a decade before moving to Exeter where he served as Director of Research for Finance and Accounting with responsibility for the Department's submission to REF2021. He serves as Vice Chair of the Research Committee for Chartered Association of Business Schools. He has also held teaching and research appointments at Cambridge, Sheffield, and Tilburg universities, and is currently an external examiner for Imperial College London.