Honors and Awards
Ford Foundation Grant on "Impact Investing and Measurement" (USD$200,000) (2024 - 2025)
18th Annual Conference on Asia-Pacific Financial Markets, Best Paper Award (2023)
Recipient, Ho Bee Professorship in Sustainability Management (2023-2026)
SMU Lee Kong Chian School of Business Dean's Teaching Honour List (AY2022-23 - Undergraduate Programme) (2023)
Winner of the Inaugural FT Responsible Business Education Award (Teaching Cases) (2022)
SMU Lee Kong Chian School of Business Dean's Teaching Honour List (AY2021-22 - Undergraduate Programme) (2022)
SMU Lee Kong Chian School of Business Dean's Teaching Honour List (Postgraduate Programme) (2021)
Korea Emerging Scholars Award by Maekyung Media Group (2021)
Member of China ESG 30 Forum (中国ESG30人论坛)
Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability (ARCS) Emerging Sustainability Scholar Award (2020)
SMU Lee Kong Chian School of Business Dean's Teaching Honour List (AY2020-21 Top Faculty - Undergraduate Programme) (2021)
SMU Lee Kong Chian School of Business Dean's Teaching Honour List (AY2019-20 Top Faculty - Undergraduate Programme) (2020)
Moskowitz Prize for Socially Responsible Investing (2019)
SMU Lee Kong Chian School of Business Dean's Teaching Honour List (AY2018-19 Top Faculty - Postgraduate Programme) (2019)
SMU Lee Kong Chian School of Business Dean's Teaching Honour List (AY2018-19 Top Faculty - Undergraduate Programme) (2019)
DBS Sustainability Fellow, Singapore Management University (2019-2021)
ASEAN Business Research Initiative (LKCSB-CKGSB) Research Grant (S$13,000 + S$14,200) (2019-2020)
Ministry of Education (MOE) Tier 2 Academic Research Grant on "Dual-Class Shares in a Time of Unicorns Going Public" (S$541,090), Principal Investigator, with Zhang Wei as the Co-PI (2019-2021)
Mirae Asset Daewoo Co., Ltd. Outstanding Paper Award, 13th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Financial Markets (2018)
SMU Lee Kong Chian School of Business Dean's Teaching Honour List (AY2017-18 Top 20 Faculty) (2018)
SMU Societal Challenge Grant Award, with Ilya Cuypers as the PI (2018-2019)
Nominee for Most Promising Teacher Award, SMU (2018)
Ministry of Education (MOE) Tier 1 Academic Research Fund, Principal Investigator (2017-2018)
BNP Paribas Fellow, Singapore Management University (2017-2019)
USASBE Best Empirical Paper Award (2017)
USASBE Best Paper in Entrepreneurial Finance (2017)
Best Paper in Corporate Finance, 4th Indonesian Financial Management Association (2016)
Zephyr Prize for Best Corporate Finance Paper, 28th AFBC Australia (2015)
Tilburg University Best PhD Thesis Award First Prize (2015)
FIR-PRI Best PhD Thesis Award on Finance and Sustainability (2015)
Cum Laude (graduation with highest distinction), Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management (2015)
Sustainable Finance Geneva Prize (Best Paper Award) (2014)
Moskowitz Prize for Socially Responsible Investing (2014)
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HSP Huygens Scholarship awarded by the Dutch government (Highest distinction) (2011-2012)
Tilburg CentER Graduate School Koopmans Scholarship (Highest distinction) (2011)
Best Bachelor Thesis, Nankai University School of Business (2009)
International Trade and Finance Association Best Student Paper Award (2009)
Dean’ List, Cornell University (2008)
National Economics and Management Academic Paper Competition Best Paper Award (2007)
Goldman Sachs Global Leader Award Nominee (2006)
Nankai University Scholarship in every academic year