TCFA COVID-19 Webinar Event
The Chinese Finance Association (TCFA) and Modern Risk Society will jointly host a webinar event titled “Learning, Predicting and Conquering COVID-19: a Finance Perspective”, starting at 9:00pm on Friday, April 24th, 2020.
The event will feature:
1. Dr. Jian Chen, founder CEO of CreditWise Technology & MSCI, will present his latest work on predicting the novel corona virus infection peaks and patient distributions in major countries.
2. A panel discussion by five finance practitioners and academics, on the development and economic impact of the corona virus pandemic.
Dr. Chen Jian has recently applied a quantitative model of credit risk to predict peaks and patient distribution of the COVID-19 outbreak. He has published several medical papers with his medical colleagues. He has recently been invited to discuss the Asian experiences of the pandemic, with Dr. Zhang Wenhong, Dr. David Ho, along with other leading experts at the Brookings Institution online forum.
Time: 9:00PM – 10:40PM, Friday, Apr 24th, 2016
Location: Online Zoom Webinar
Due to limit of webinar capacity, we strongly encourage you to register for the Zoom webinar as (https://cirforum.org/eventregistration.html) early as possible.
Agenda:
9:00PM – 9:30PM: Presentation by Dr. Jian Chen
9:30PM – 10:40PM: Panel Discussion
Chenyang Wei (moderator), TCFA and PBCSF
Jian Chen, CreditWise Technology & MSCI
Joseph Qiu, Marsh & McLennan
Tianyang Wang, Colorado State University
Alex Yao, American Risk and Insurance Association (ARIA)
We hope to see you at the webinar event.
TCFA Management
About The Chinese Finance Association (TCFA)
Founded in 1994 in the U.S., the Chinese Finance Association (TCFA, www.tcfaglobal.org ) is a government registered non-profit organization aimed at facilitating the exchange of ideas, knowledge and information on education, research and practice in finance and related areas between the US and China. Headquartered in New York City, TCFA has more than 15 regional chapters with +6000 members worldwide. Through its global network, TCFA organizes and sponsors a broad range of activities on a regular basis, including annual conferences, the Best Paper Awards, seminars and career development workshops.
Speaker Biographies:
Jian Chen (featured speaker)
Dr. Jian Chen is the founder and CEO of CreditWise Technologies, Co. Ltd. He also serves as the senior advisor of MSCI’s China ABS business, and the senior advisor of Caixin Insight Group. He previously held the positions of Managing Partner of RQuest Financial Services Group, Managing Director in IFE Group, Risk Modeling Director in Freddie Mac, Director of Credit Risk Management in Fannie Mae.
Dr. Chen holds the academic position of adjunct professor at Shanghai Institute of Advanced Finance (SAIF). He also serves as the visiting professor of PKU-Fordham joint PhD program. He previously served as an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, where he taught MBA-level finance courses. Dr. Chen’s academic research interests include discrete event modeling, real estate finance and economics, fixed income securities pricing & hedging, consumer behavior modeling, and quantitative risk management.
Dr. Chen writes column articles for several prominent Chinese newspaper and periodicals, including Wenhui Bao, South Reviews Magazine, CAIXIN Media.
Dr. Chen has his BS in EE from Xi’an Jiaotong University, his MS in EE from Shanghai Jiaotong Unviersity, and his Ph.D. in Computational Finance from Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland at College Park.
Chenyang Wei (moderator)
Chenyang (Jason) Wei is Associate Dean of Tsinghua Institute of FinTech Research, and Director of China Insurance and Pension Research Center at Tsinghua PBC School of Finance (PBCSF). Based in New York, He is also responsible for PBCSF’s global partnership initiatives, including policy/industry research cooperation, oversea executive training development, and international conference collaboration.
He is Senior Advisor and former founding GM of Zenity Holdings New York, a global industrial investment group headquartered in China. Prior to Zenity, he was Head of Credit Research at American International Group (AIG), reporting to AIG’s Chief Credit Officer with research covering total AUM of $300bn in AIG Investments. Before AIG, he was Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, and earlier Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He is also a Research Fellow at Wharton Financial Institutions Center.
He is currently Chairman of Board of The Chinese Finance Association (TCFA), the largest global association of Chinese finance professionals with 6000+ members worldwide. He is former TCFA President (2014) and is founding Chair of TCFA Best Paper Symposium.
He holds a Ph.D. in Finance from Stern School of Business at New York University, a M.S. in Economics from University of Texas at Austin, and a B.A. (Finance) from Tsinghua SEM.
Joseph Qiu
Joseph Qiu is Senior Vice President of Global Strategic Advisory at Marsh & McLennan. He specializes in advising insurers, reinsurers and risk pools on profitable growth, portfolio optimization, underwriting excellence, risk transfer and specialty risk management.
Prior to Marsh & McLennan, Joseph was Head of Catastrophe Modeling for JLT’s Americas region. Before that, he served as Senior Portfolio Manager at AIG, responsible for managing the catastrophe risk of AIG’s commercial property portfolio, the world’s largest property insurance portfolio. His global responsibilities required him to set standards and oversee the practice of all the regions (North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa).
Coming from academia, Joseph is currently a Board of Director of the American Risk and Insurance Association (ARIA). He used to serve as the Assistant Editor of Risk Management and Insurance Review from 2005 to 2008. His publications appear in both academic and industry journals, including Journal of Risk and Insurance, North American Actuarial Journal, China & World Economy, Journal of Financial Transformation, Journal of Financial Perspectives, Journal of Reinsurance and Emphasis. Two of his articles were invited for reprint. Joseph also spoke at various academic and industry conferences.
Joseph obtained his Ph.D. in Risk Management and Insurance from Temple University and Bachelor in Finance from Tsinghua University. He is a certified Financial Risk Manager (FRM).
Tianyang Wang
Tianyang Wang (Tian) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Finance and Real Estate at Colorado State University. Tian earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), a Financial Risk Manager (FRM) — Certified by the Global Association of Risk Professionals, and an Associate of the Society of Actuaries (ASA).
Tian’s research spans both theoretical developments and empirical applications primarily in asset pricing, behavior finance, derivatives, and financial risk management. His work has been published in journals such as Operations Research, Risk Analysis, Quantitative Finance, Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Risk and Insurance, Journal of Futures Markets, Energy Economics, and Financial Review among others. Tian's research has been supported by several research grants including grants from the Natural Science Foundation (NSF) of China, the Society of Actuaries (SOA), the Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS), and the Enterprise Research Program. He is grateful for numerous best paper awards and honors including the Academic Research Colloquium Best Paper Award by CFP Board Center for Financial Planning and Dean’s Scholars.
Tian has been an invited speaker, session chair and discussant at international and regional conferences. He has actively served on several research and program committees of major academic and professional societies including the Financial Management Association, Southern Finance Association, American Risk and Insurance Association, J.P. Morgan International Commodities Symposium, and Society of Actuaries to assist the development of an active and productive research community. Tian also serves in the leadership group of Modern Risk Society and on the Editorial Advisory Board of China Finance Review International.
Yi Yao
Alex Yao has over 16-year experience in the field of financial risk management. Currently an independent consultant focused on corporate risk management, he has rich experience in risk modelling and Basel Accord implementation. Prior to this position, he was the CEO of risk consulting of Shanghai Amarsoft Information Technology Co. Ltd., and the senior manager of Asset-Liability Management Group of the Bank of Communications. After earning the Financial Risk Manager designation in 2008, Alex has been actively involved in financial risk management education. Alex received his bachelor and master degrees in mathematics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.