Biography

Jason Chenyang Wei is Associate Dean of Tsinghua Institute of FinTech Research. At Tsinghua PBC School of Finance (PBCSF), he serves as Director of the China Insurance and Pension Research Center, and Secretary General of Tsinghua PBCSF Global Forum of Real Estate Finance. He is former General Manager of the New York Center and Chief U.S. Economist of Zenity Holdings, a global industrial investment group headquartered in China. Prior to joining Zenity, he was Head of Credit Research at American International Group (AIG). Before joining AIG, he was Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, and before that he was Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He is also a Research Fellow at Wharton Financial Institutions Center. He has published on top-tier finance and policy journals including Review of Financial Studies, Economic Policy Review, Tsinghua Financial Review, and International Financial Review. He is former Chairman of Board of The Chinese Finance Association (TCFA), the largest global association of Chinese finance professionals with over 6000 members worldwide. He served as President of TCFA from 2014 to 2015. He holds a Ph.D. in Finance from Stern School of Business at New York University, a M.S. in Economics from University of Texas at Austin, and a B.A. in Finance from Tsinghua School of Economics and Management.