Financial Innovation

Rose Neng LAI is Professor of Finance of the Faculty of Business Administration of the University of Macau, and the Dean of the Honours College of the University since 2019. She was a Visiting Fellow in 2010 and is the Life Member of the Clare Hall of the University of Cambridge. She runs the Executive Director Office for the Asian Real Estate Society, for which she was the President in 2007, as well as executive director and the past President (2012) of the Board of the Global Chinese Real Estate Congress. She has also sat on various committees in international Associations such as the AREUEA and the ARES, and academic search/promotion committees for various universities such as University of Cambridge, University College London and University of Melbourne. Her research in real estate finance and economics, behavioral finance, and risk management has been published in the Real Estate Economics, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Real Estate Research, and others. She won the 2019 International Real Estate Society Achievement Award, and the 2017 Edwin Mills Best Paper Award. She is currently the Executive Editor of the International Real Estate Review. She has also led several government consultancy projects, joined think-tanks and committees for expert opinions, and consulted by international bodies. She earned her BBA from the University of East Asia (predecessor of the University of Macau), MBA from the Simon Fraser University, Canada, and her PhD in Finance from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Prof. Cheris W. C. Chow is an Associate Professor in Marketing at University of Macau. She received her Ph.D. in marketing from the City University of Hong Kong. She teaches modules on Consumer Behavior, Integrated Marketing Communications, Entertainment Marketing and Brand Management at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Her research interest focuses on consumer psychology, advertising management, services marketing, and tourism & hospitality management. She has published papers in journals such as the Journal of International Business Studies, Psychology & Marketing, Journal of Advertising, Tourism Management, Human Resource Management, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Journal of Managerial Psychology, Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics, and International Journal of Hospitality Management, etc.

Prof. Chow received best paper award in several international conferences in US, Mainland China and HK. She was the registered report editor of Psychology & Marketing in 2020. She also served as ad hoc reviewer for business and marketing journals including the Psychology & Marketing, Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing, Applied Psychology: An International Review, Journal of Global Marketing, International Journal of Hospitality Management, Journal of Managerial Psychology, Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics, etc. She was also the organizing committee member of the 5th World Business Ethics Forum and acted as the track chair of the 27th Annual World Business Congress in 2018.

In addition to teaching and research, Prof. Chow is devoted to human resources training and marketing research in commercial circles. She has provided staff training for Sheraton Hotel (Zhongshan), Yuehai Hotel (Shanghai), Prudential Insurance Company (HK) and the major hotels and casinos in Macau. She has also worked on consultancy projects for China Travel Services Ltd, travel agencies in HK, hotels in Mainland China, etc.

Lewis H.K. Tam is an Associate Professor of Finance in the Department of Finance and Business Economics, Faculty of Business Administration, University of Macau. Lewis has a diversified portfolio of research outputs. His research interests include corporate finance, mergers & acquisitions, empirical asset pricing, Chinese stock market, corporate social responsibilities, and financial technology.

Lewis obtained his Ph.D. degree in finance at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He got his first degree in finance at the HKUST as well. Besides, he became a CFA Charterholder in 2008 after passing three levels of the CFA examinations and accumulating four years of relevant work experience.

Dr. Zhe Ma is currently a Senior Instructor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Macau.

In 2012, Dr. Ma obtained her first law degree from the Law School of Peking University, where she also got a minor degree in Economics from the National School of Development of Peking University. After the graduation, she went to Portugal to study Portuguese and Portuguese Business Law, respectively at the University of Lisbon and the School of Lisbon of Catholic University of Portugal. From 2014 to 2021, Dr. Ma conducted her postgraduate research at the Faculty of Law of the University of Macau, focusing on general theories of business law, on which she received her degree of PhD in Law.

Her research interests include general theories of business law, company law, bankruptcy law, securities law, financial law, banking law, contract law, legal history, legal perspectives on science and technology, etc. Dr. Ma is fluent in Portuguese, and she has translated some Portuguese law textbooks into Chinese. She also provided legal opinions and advisory/consulting services to the management of the University of Macau, the Macau government, and some public institutions in the mainland.

Before joining the University of Macau, Dr. Ma was Trainee Lawyer in the area of Capital Market and Researcher at the Hong Kong and Macau Basic Law Research Center of Shenzhen University.