Prof. David K. Ding from Massey University and Singapore Management University, Delivered a keynote speech at Conference GIMAR-2020 Tokyo, Japan

Professor Dr. David Ding is Professor of Finance and Financial Economics at Massey University, New Zealand and Associate Professor of Finance at the Singapore Management University. He previously served as the Foundation Professor of Finance and coordinator of the finance program at the University of New South Wales (Asia); as Director of the Center for Research in Financial Services and Head of the Division of Banking and Finance at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Professor Ding has taught Business Finance, Financial Management, Corporate Finance, Investment Analysis & Portfolio Management, and International Financial Management at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Professor Ding’s areas of research are in the microstructure of financial markets, corporate governance, international corporate finance, and investments. He has published more than 50 articles in leading academic and professional journals such as the Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Futures Markets, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Journal of Multinational Financial Management, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Financial Review, Pacific Basin Finance Journal, International Journal of Finance, and International Review of Economics and Finance, among others. In 2009, he was listed among the top 3% of the most prolific authors appearing in the 26 core finance journals; in 2005, he was ranked 17th out of 778 researchers from among 170 universities in the Asia-Pacific region by the Pacific Basin Finance Journal.
Dr. Ding served as the elected president of the Asian Finance Association, president of the Pacific Basin Financial Management Society, panel of experts on securities offences at the Commercial Affairs Department of the Singapore Police Force, and advisory board member of the journal of the Singapore Exchange. He is a member of the American Finance Association, Financial Management Association International, Asian Finance Association, CFA Institute, CFA New Zealand and the Asian Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee. He is a regional editor of the Journal of Emerging Markets and serves as associate editor of International Review of Financial Analysis, Journal of Emerging Markets, International Journal of Portfolio Analysis and Management, Frontiers of Business Research in China, Journal of Financial Studies, Corporate Governance and Sustainability Review, and International Journal of Banking and Finance. Dr. Ding holds the Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Memphis, an MBA in Finance from the University of Tennessee, and an Honours degree in Business Administration from the University of Windsor, Canada.