Dr. Xuan TIAN is currently Associate Dean and JD Capital Chair Professor of Finance at PBC School of Finance, Tsinghua University. He is also the “Cheung Kong Scholar” Distinguished Professor (2016), the director of the Global Merger & Acquisition and Restructuring Research Center at Tsinghua University, and the director of the Finance MBA program at PBC School of Finance of Tsinghua University. Before joining Tsinghua, He was a Professor of Finance with tenure at Kelley School of Business of Indiana University. Professor Tian received his Ph.D. from Boston College in 2008, M.A. from the University of Washington, and B.A. from Beijing University, China, in 2001.
Professor Tian 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. His current research focuses on the role of venture capital and private equity in value creation for entrepreneurial firms and entrepreneurs. Another main area of his research is motivating and financing corporate innovation. He has more than 30 academic papers published in leading academic journals including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and Review of Financial Studies.
Prof. Tian’s articles won the 2012 Jensen Prize (2nd place) and 2019 Jensen Prize (1st place) for best paper published in the areas of corporate finance and organizations in the Journal of Financial Economics. Dr. Tian won the Kelley School of Business Research Excellence Award four times. Dr. Tian’s research has been presented at numerous university workshops such as Harvard University, Columbia University, Dartmouth College and academic conferences such as the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) meetings, the Western Finance Association (WFA) meetings, the American Finance Association (AFA) meetings, and the American Economic Association (AEA) meetings.
Professor Tian is on the editor board of the Accounting Review, a co-editor of Journal of Corporate Finance, an Associate Editor of Management Science, Journal of Banking and Finance, and China Economic Review. He is a committee member of many top academic conferences and has served as an ad hoc referee for over 30 academic journals.
