At the beginning of the year 2013, a delegation from the PBC School of Finance attended the ASSA Annual Meeting, making use of the AFA branch as a platform for overseas faculty recruitment.
Since the establishment of our school, world-wide recruitment of first-class teachers has been the top priority. In August of 2012, the school launched a recruitment event targeted at the AFA Annual Meeting by publishing recruitment notices in domesticforeign finance publications, onlineacross other mediums. We have received 185 job applications, 39% of which were submitted by graduatesteachers from the top 40 universitiescolleges in North America. Through a process of strict accreditation, a total of 43 applicants was interviewed during the AFA annual meeting. Tsinghua Universityschool leaders paid close attention to this recruitment event. WU Xiaoling, Board ChairwomanDean, ZHOU Yanli, Board memberVice President of CIRC, JIANG Shengyao, Vice President of Tsinghua University, WANG Xiqin, Personnel Division Head of Tsinghua University, LIAO Li, Executive Associate Dean, NIE Fenghua, Senior Associate Dean, ZHOU Hao, Federal Reserve Senior Economist (ZHOU Hao will begin teaching at the school as of February 2013), CAO Quanwei, Finance Professor of the Pennsylvania State University and Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University,LI Si, Associate Professor at the school were all present at the AFA Meeting.
As one of the primary focuses of the recruitment event, on January 3rd, the school held a recruitment wine reception, marking the first significant appearance of the school in international financial circles since the official establishment on March 29th, 2012. Nearly 200 finance academics from all over the world attended the party. Dean Wu introduced in detail the overall situation, future development plans of the school,objectives of Financial Reform in China's "Twelfth 5-year-Plan". She also declared that the school is preparing to establish the Tsinghua National Academy of Financial Research,all full-time faculties will act as part-time researchers there. Through the foundation of the academy, a strong research team can be developed to advance China's financial policy research.
LI Jinliang, Associate Dean of Tsinghua University's School of EconomicsManagement, Michael Powers, Director of Finance, HE Ping, Associate Director, WANG Jiang, Dean of the Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance at Shanghai Jiaotong University, ZHANG Chun, Executive Dean, LIANG Jing, Executive Dean of the Hanqing Advanced Institute of EconomicsFinance at Renmin University, professors at domestic universitiescollegessome other noted Chinese economists from the Federal Reserve all attended the event.
By way of this event, we have displayed to the world our new school's imagebuilt a bridge of communication with international Finance circles. It is of the utmost significance to the promotion of our academic level, the strengthening of international academic communicationthe building of our faculty team.
The ASSA Annual Meeting is one of the largest social science conferencesis composed of the branches of the American Finance Association (AFA), American Economic Association (AEA), Econometric Society (ES), among others. It not only establishes an academic communication platform but has also become an important employment channel for EconomicsManagement Graduates across North America.
