Recently, two internationally renowned Chinese scholars, Dr. Xuan Tian and Dr. Hong Zhang, as well as two young scholars, Dr. Zhuo Chen and Dr. Bibo Liu, joined the faculty team of Tsinghua PBCSF.  

Before working as a professor at Tsinghua PBCSF, Xuan Tian has been an Associate Professor of Finance with tenure since 2014 (on leave) and was an Assistant Professor of Finance between 2008 and 2014 at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. He is an award winning researcher in the areas of corporate finance and financial intermediation with special research interests on venture capital, private equity, corporate innovation, and payout policy. Within the six years after he obtained his Ph.D. in Finance, Professor Tian had seven papers published in Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics and Review of Financial Studies. His research was widely cited and continuously included in the required reading list for Ph.D. programs at world-class universities.

Hong Zhang is currently an Associate Professor of Finance at Tsinghua PBCSF. His research covers international finance, institutions, investments (especially related to mutual funds and hedge funds), as well as corporate governance. His recent paper was cited by The New York Times and Financial Advisor Magazine as to "have solved a big problem for mutual fund rating systems". The same paper had also been listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for "AFA 2004 San Diego Meetings All Time Hits" and "European Finance Association Meetings (EFA) (Archive) All Time Hits". Zhang received his PhD in Finance from Yale School of Management in 2004. Before joining PBCSF, he had worked at INSEAD since 2004, and visited Yale School of Management and Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business. He has rich experience in MBA teaching and senior executive education, with multiple research cases published in ECCH. 

Zhuo Chen is currently an Assistant Professor at Tsinghua PBCSF. Chen received his Ph.D. in Finance from Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University in 2014. Before that, he earned his M.A. degree in Economics from Duke University in 2009 and dual bachelor degrees in engineering and economics from Peking University in 2007. His research interests include empirical asset pricing, with a focus on financial market frictions, financial econometrics, and quantitative portfolio management. His research has won several awards, including Chicago Quantitative Alliance (CQA) Academic Competition, PanAgora Crowell Memorial Prize Finalist, and Australasian Finance and Banking Conference PhD Forum Second Prize. 

Bibo Liu is currently an Assistant Professor at Tsinghua PBCSF. Liu received his PhD in Economics from School of of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University in 2010, and his bachelor degree in Finance from Tsinghua University in 2005. He worked as a vice president at the Equity Capital Markets Department of CITIC Securities before joining Tsinghua. His research interests include agency and information issues in corporate finance with a focus on Chinese financial market. His research has been published in influential financial journals such as Journal of Financial Economics, Financial Management and Journal of Financial Research. His research has won several awards, including the Minoru Kobayashi China Economic Research Fund Grant and the Carlye Group PE Fellowship. 

 As of November, 2014, Tsinghua PBCSF has a full-time faculty consisting of 11 teachers and there will be more outstanding scholars joining the School by the end of the semester. The School aims to build a first-class faculty team in the next 3 to 5 years.