Jing Chi is a New Zealand finance academic, and is a full professor at

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, specialising in

Initial Public Offerings An initial public offering (IPO) or stock launch is a public offering in which shares of a company are sold to institutional investors and usually also to retail (individual) investors. An IPO is typically underwritten by one or more investme ...

, Chinese

corporate finance Corporate finance is an area of finance that deals with the sources of funding, and the capital structure of businesses, the actions that managers take to increase the Value investing, value of the firm to the shareholders, and the tools and analy ...

and Chinese

corporate governance Corporate governance refers to the mechanisms, processes, practices, and relations by which corporations are controlled and operated by their boards of directors, managers, shareholders, and stakeholders. Definitions "Corporate governance" may ...

. She is a

Chartered Financial Analyst The Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) program is a postgraduate professional certification offered internationally by the US-based CFA Institute (formerly the Association for Investment Management and Research, or AIMR) to investment and financia ...

and won a national award for her teaching.

Academic career

Chi has worked in China for

Huatai Securities Huatai Securities (HTSC) () is a securities company in China which engages in the operation of large-scale comprehensive securities broking and trading services. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Nanjing, China. Background ...

, in the Investment Banking Department, where she was responsible for Initial Public Offerings, and at the

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as an analyst. Chi completed a

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in finance titled ''The performance and characteristics of the Chinese IPO market'' at the

University of Reading The University of Reading is a public research university in Reading, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1892 as the University Extension College, Reading, an extension college of Christchurch College, Oxford, and became University College, ...

in 2003. Chi then joined the faculty of the School of Economics and Finance at Massey University in 2004, rising to full professor in 2024. Chi is Massey's first Chartered Financial Analyst. Chi's research focuses on Initial Public Offerings, Chinese corporate governance and Chinese finance. Chi is an affiliate member of Massey's Sustainable Finance Cluster, and a Research Fellow in the China Research Centre at

Victoria University of Wellington Victoria University of Wellington (), also known by its shorter names "VUW" or "Vic", is a public university, public research university in Wellington, New Zealand. It was established in 1897 by Act of New Zealand Parliament, Parliament, and w ...

. Chi was awarded the Massey Business School Star Award for Excellence in Student Support, Excellence in Enterprise and High-Performance Team. Chi won the Ako Aotearoa 2013 award for Sustained Excellence in Tertiary Teaching, with the citation describing her as "dedicated to communicating a complex discipline across cultural and geographical boundaries". Chi chairs a 'supervisor mentoring circle' and mentors other supervisors. Chi developed a Bachelor of Business Finance with a pathway to Chartered Financial Analyst, and has also led Massey's international joint programme with Wuhan, where students complete two years in Wuhan before finishing with two years at Massey. Chi is on the editorial board of the journal '' Finance Research Letters''.

Selected works

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References

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