Professor Xin Chang is a Professor of Finance and Associate Dean (Research) at Nanyang Business School (NBS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), where he oversees the School’s PhD programs and research activities.

From 2015 to 2018, he was a tenured University Reader in Finance at Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. During this period, he also held the titles of J.M. Keynes Fellow in Financial Economics, Fellow of Darwin College, and Research Fellow at the Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance. Prior to that, he served as a Lecturer and later a tenured Senior Lecturer in Finance at the University of Melbourne between 2004 and 2008.

Professor Chang specializes in corporate finance, with particular research interests in capital structure, corporate innovation, mergers and acquisitions, equity valuation, and sustainable finance. He has taught extensively across undergraduate, honours, master's, and doctoral programs at leading institutions including the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), University of Melbourne, University of Cambridge, and NTU.

His excellence in research and teaching has been widely recognized. He received the Research Excellence Award at the University of Melbourne in 2006 and the Certificate of Teaching Excellence in 2007. At NTU, he has been awarded numerous accolades including Researcher of the Year (2009), MBA Teacher of the Year (2011), Division Teacher of the Year (2013), and NTU Best PhD Supervisor Award (2020). He also received the Peter Brownell Award for Best Publication in Accounting and Finance (2007), multiple Best Paper Awards at international conferences (SFM 2008 and 2011, World Business Ethics Forum 2012), the “Best Professor in Financial Management” award at the 2012 Asia’s Best B-Schools Awards, the Best Paper Award in Corporate Finance from the Chinese Finance Association (TCFA) in 2013, and the Best Paper Award on Research Integrity in 2023.

Professor Chang has published over a dozen papers in internationally leading journals, including the four top finance journals (Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis) and top-tier accounting journals (Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, and Contemporary Accounting Research). He serves as Associate Editor of the International Review of Finance and the Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies, and as Editor of Risk Sciences, The International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance, and the Journal of Internet and Digital Economics. He is also a member of the editorial board of Accounting Open.