2025 IFS SUMMER PROGRAM
Topic: Set in Stone: The Persistence and Origin of Corporate Culture
Speaker: Kai Li, Professor of Finance at the UBC Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia
Time: 10:00 AM -11:30 AM, Friday, August 1, 2025
Location: Conference Room 202, Institute of Financial Studies (Guanghua Campus), Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu, China
About the speaker：
Kai Li is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Class of 2022), holds the Canada Research Chair in Corporate Governance and W. Maurice Young Endowed Chair in Finance at the UBC Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia. She is Managing Editor of Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. Her research focuses on the economic consequences of corporate governance mechanisms. Her current research projects explore corporate culture, machine learning in finance, and green innovation. Her research has appeared in Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Management Science, Journal of International Business Studies, and many other leading journals in Finance and Economics. She is a Senior Fellow of the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research, a Research Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute, and a Research Fellow of the FinTech at Cornell Initiative. She is on the Editorial Board of Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Financial Stability, and Pacific-Basin Finance Journal. She is a Director of the American Finance Association, a former Chair of the Academic Female Finance Committee, a former Director of the Western Finance Association, a former Council Member of the Society of Financial Studies, and a former Trustee of the Financial Association International.
Contact us:
Institute of Financial Studies
Tel: 028-87099046 028-87099047
Email: guoxy@swufe.edu.cn
