Dr. 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. His research and teaching interests cover Fintech and digital transformation, insurance and pension, real estate finance and ESG, etc.
He is former General Manager (North America) and Chief U.S. Economist of Zenity Holdings, a global industrial investment group. Prior to Zenity, he was Head of Credit Research at American International Group (AIG), reporting to AIG’s Chief Credit Officer with research covering total AUM of $300bn in AIG Investments. Before AIG, he was Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, and earlier Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He has published on top-tier finance/policy journals in the US and in China as well, including Review of Financial Studies, Economic Policy Review, Tsinghua Financial Review, and International Financial Review.
 
He is former President and Chairman of Board of The Chinese Finance Association (TCFA), the largest global association of Chinese finance professionals with 6000+ members worldwide. He is also President of the Eastern U.S. Alumni Association of Tsinghua University’s School of Economics and Management.
 
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. (Finance) from Tsinghua University’s School of Economics and Management.