Lin Peng is the Krell Chair Professor of Finance at Baruch College, The City University of New York, and an Associate Editor for Management Science and the Journal of Empirical Finance. She is a visiting scholar at Princeton University and serves on the Management Committee for the Keynes Fund at the University of Cambridge, as Director of the Program on Finance and Sustainability at the Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity, and as a member of the New York City Panel on Climate Change.
Her research spans social networks, behavioral finance, FinTech, AI, and sustainable finance. Her work has been published in leading academic journals such as the American Economic Review, Journal of Finance (lead article), Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analyis, Management Science, Review of Finance, and Journal of Accounting Research (top downloaded article), and has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, and Reuters, among others.
Her work has been presented at global regulatory agencies, including the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, the European Securities and Markets Authority, and the Bank of England, as well as at top universities and conferences in economics, finance, accounting, and law worldwide. She was named an AACSB Influential Leader in 2024, a selective global recognition honoring business school leaders whose work has had sustained, measurable impact on business and society.
She was previously Director of Research, a Visiting Professor, and a Professorial Fellow at Darwin College, University of Cambridge, and a visiting professor at Princeton University, Columbia University, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong Shenzhen.
She was an associate editor for Financial Management. She received an MA in Biology from Wesleyan University and a Ph.D. in Finance from Duke University.