Bo Sun is an Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Global Economies and Markets area at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business and holds a courtesy appointment at the Department of Economics at the University of Virginia. Her research examines how information and uncertainty influence economic decisions and explore how policy interventions can address their effects.
Bo's work has been published in leading academic journals, including the American Economic Review, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of International Economics, International Economic Review, Journal of Economic Literature, and American Economic Journal: Microeconomics. Her research has received coverage in the Wall Street Journal, Chicago Booth Review, Deutsche Bank Research, Barclay Insider Report, Two Sigma Investments, Cato Institute, QuantPedia, and ValueWalk, as well as at Hoover, Brookings, and American Enterprise Institute. In addition, Bo has published in policy outlets including the FEDS Notes of the Board of Governors and Liberty Street Economics of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Bo has received multiple teaching awards at UVA Darden. Most recently, in 2025, the graduating class voted Bo as Faculty Marshal, the highest honor bestowed by graduating MBA students. In 2024, Bo was honored with the Faculty Diversity Award for her contributions to improving inclusion within the Darden community.
Prior to joining UVA Darden, Bo was a Principal Economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. She was on the faculty at Peking University Guanghua School of Management and was a visiting scholar at Carnegie Mellon Tepper School of Business, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, and the World Bank. She currently serves as an Associate Editor at the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking and is a Fellow at the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Virginia and a B.A. in Finance, with a minor in Mathematics, from Peking University.