Prof. Hao Liang

Dr. Hao Liang is Ho Bee Professor in Sustainability Management and Professor of Finance at Singapore Management University (SMU), where he also serves as the Academic Director of the Singapore Green Finance Centre (Singapore’s first centre of excellence for sustainable finance) and the Co-Lead of the Sustainable Business Research Peak. Previously he held the BNP Paribas Fellowship, DBS Sustainability Fellowship, and Lee Kong Chian Fellowship. 

He is a research member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) and an extramural fellow at Tilburg University, where he received his PhD in Finance and won the university-wide Best Dissertation Award in 2015. Additionally, he serves on the Board of Global Research Alliance for Sustainable Finance and Investment (GRASFI) and the Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability (ARCS), the Steering Committee of the Impact & Sustainable Finance Faculty Consortium, the Scientific Committee of the Geneva Centre for Philanthropy, the Technical Committee for Sustainable Finance of Enterprise Singapore, the ESG Advisory Group of World Federation of Exchanges, and has been nominated to the China ESG 30 Forum by Caixin Magazine.

Dr. Liang's research interests include sustainable finance, impact investing, corporate finance, and governance. He has published in prestigious academic journals, such as the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Finance, Journal of International Business Studies, Management Science, Organization Science, Journal of Business Venturing, and Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences. He is the Section Editor (Finance & Business Ethics) for the Journal of Business Ethics, an Associate Editor for Management Science, Journal of Business Research, Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies, and British Accounting Review, and serves on the editorial review board of the Strategic Management Journal.

Professor Liang received the Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability Emerging Scholar Award in 2020 and has twice won the prestigious Moskowitz Prize for Socially Responsible Investing (2014 & 2019). At SMU, he teaches Sustainable Finance, Entrepreneurial Finance, Corporate Finance, and Applied Econometrics at the undergraduate, master’s, DBA, executive, and PhD levels. He frequently contributes to the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and the Oxford Business Law Blog, among other media outlets.