Lina is an Associate Professor of finance at the Department of Accounting and Finance. She previously held a Senior Lecturer position at Imperial College London Business School where she was director of the MSc Finance programme and lectured on the MSc Finance and MBA programmes. Lina earned a PhD in Finance from the University of London.


Her work has appeared in finance journals such as Journal of Money Credit and Banking, Journal of Banking and Finance, and Journal of Financial Markets and in more mainstream practitioner publications such as Risk and Professional Investor. Her research has been funded with grants from the Economic & Social Research Council. She is an associate editor for the European Journal of Finance. Lina has also consulted for several investment and Central banks including Deutsche Bank London.

Ning Ding is a PhD candidate at the University of Auckland Business School supervised by Professor Dimitris Margaritis, and Associate Professor Lina El-Jahel. Ning obtained her Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) degree in Finance and her Bachelor of Commerce degree in Accounting and Finance from the University of Auckland.

Yeguang Chi served as an Assistant Professor of Finance at Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF), Shanghai Jiao Tong University from 2015 to 2020.

Dr. Chi’s research focuses on the areas of asset pricing, information and markets, institutional money management, Chinese financial markets, and cryptocurrency.

Dr. Chi received his Ph.D. in Financial Economics from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and Economics Department in 2015, MBA from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business in 2015, and M.S. and B.A. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University in 2008.

Distinctions/Honours:
Best Paper of the 4th Australasian Commodity Market Conference 2022

The University of Auckland Faculty Research Development Fund 2021

The University of Auckland Performance-Based Research Fund 2021

The University of Auckland Summer Scholar Research Fund 2021

The University of Auckland Performance-Based Research Fund 2020

CFA Best Paper of the 7th Auckland Finance Meeting 2017

China Academy of Financial Research (CAFR): Research Grants 2015 – 2017

CFA First Prize of the 29th Australasian Finance and Banking Conference 2016

Fischer Black Fellowship in Finance 2014 – 2015

American Finance Association Doctoral Travel Scholar 2014

Margaret M. Lee Prize for highest overall performance in macro specialized fields 2011 – 2012

Chicago Booth Fama-Miller Research Center: Research Grants 2012 – 2014

John Harvard Scholar 2004 – 2008

Shelby Davis United World College Scholar 2004 – 2008

Committee/Professional groups/Services:
Referee: Journal of Finance, Management Science, Journal of Banking and Finance, International Review of Finance, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of International Financial Markets, Insitutions and Money


National Bureau of Economic Research, Full-Time Research Assistant 2008 – 2010

Cornerstone Research, Analyst 2007

Qualifications:
PhD in Financial Economics & MBA (University of Chicago Booth School of Business); MS & BA in Applied Mathematics (Harvard University)

Areas of Expertise:
Asset Pricing, Institutional and Retail Investors, Behavioral Finance, Chinese Financial Markets, Cryptocurrency