Dr. Xuan Zhang earned his PhD in Finance from Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow. He is an associate professor of finance at the College of Economics and Management, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. His research interests include financial risk management, corporate finance, and digital finance. He has published in Journal of Banking & Finance, Journal of Financial Markets, International Journal of Forecasting, Energy Economics, among others. He is the principle investigator of youth project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He is the secretary-general of the Professional Committee of Fintech of Jiangsu Financial Association, associate editor of International Review of Economics & Finance, Finance Research Letters, Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, and guest editor of Economic Modelling.