International Advisory Board

Harvey Chang 張孝威

Former Chairman

• Former Chairman and CEO of TVBS Media Inc

• Former president and CEO of Taiwan Mobile

• Former Senior Vice-President and Chief financial Officer of TSMC

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Harvey Chang is the former Chairman and CEO of TVBS Media Inc. Prior to leading TVBS Media, Chang was president and CEO of Taiwan Mobile and senior vice-president and chief financial officer of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC) from 1998 to 2003. Before TSMC, Chang served in Chinese Taipei's financial service community for 20 years.

Jian Ling Chen

Associate Dean, Law School

• LLB from National University of Singapore

• LLM and JSD from the University of Chicago

• Qualified to practice law in Singapore and New York.

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Professor Jian-lin Chen obtained his LLB from National University of Singapore, and his LLM and JSD from the University of Chicago.

Bilingual in English and Chinese, Jianlin publishes widely, with a monograph from Cambridge University Press, and in law journals such as Columbia Journal of Asian Law, Law & Social Inquiry, Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, among many others.

Chang Tai Hsieh

Phyllis and Irwin Winkelried Distinguished Service Professor of Economics

• Academician, Academia Sinica (2012)

• Econometric Society, Fellow (2022)

• American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow (2023)

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Chang Tai Hsieh is a Research Associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Senior Fellow at the Bureau for Research in Economic Analysis of Development, and a member of the Steering Group of the International Growth Center in London.

He is the recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, an Elected Member of Academia Sinica, and a two-time recipient of the Sun Ye-Fang Prize.

Hwei-Chen Huang 黃輝珍

Chairman of the Board

• Advisor of University Development, National Taiwan University

• Board Member of Strait Exchange Foundation (SEF)

• Minister without portfolio, Executive Yuan

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Graduated from the Law Department of National Chengchi University, and studied the operation of Congress in Washington, D.C.; he once served as the CEO of the National Policy Research Center, the publisher and president of the "Central Daily News", the director of the Central Cultural Work Council of the Chinese Kuomintang, the secretary-general of the the General Association of Chinese Culture (GACC), and " Director of the Information Bureau of the Executive Yuan, "National Policy Advisor to the Presidential Office", "Political Affairs Councilor of the Executive Yuan", etc.; currently, he is the chairman of the Taiwan Research Institute.

Benny T. Hu 胡定吾

​Chairman

• Chairman and Co-founder of Strait Capital Investment Group

• Chairman and Co-founder of Strait Capital Investment Group

• BA, National Taiwan University
  MA, Yale University
  MBA, Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania

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Benny T. Hu is the Chairman and Co-founder of Strait Capital Investment Group. He attended National Taiwan University, Yale University, and Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Benny is one of the co-founders and a partner of the Strait Capital Investment Group. Prior to establishing the group, Benny was the Chairman and Co-founder of Strait Capital Investment Group Benny holds a BA from the National Taiwan University and further obtained MA from the Yale University and MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Benny was the renowned pioneer in the field of finance and was delegated as the ambassador-at-large for Taiwan since 2001. He has served as ambassador-at-large for the Taiwan.

Andrew W. Lo

Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor

• Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor at MIT

• Batterymarch, Guggenheim Awardee

• Sloan Fellowships

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Andrew W. Lo is the Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor and the Director of the Laboratory for Financial Engineering at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His awards include Batterymarch, Guggenheim, and Sloan Fellowships; the Paul A. Samuelson Award; the Eugene Fama Prize; the IAFE-SunGard Financial Engineer of the Year; the Global Association of Risk Professionals Risk Manager of the Year; the Harry M. Markowitz Award; the Managed Futures Pinnacle Achievement Award; one of TIME’s “100 most influential people in the world”; and awards for teaching excellence from both Wharton and MIT.

Alexander Ljungqvist

Stefan Persson Family Chair in Entrepreneurial Finance

• Alexander Ljungqvist is the inaugural holder of the Stefan Persson Family Chair in Entrepreneurial Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics.

• Bankers Trust Fellowship at Oxford University

• Sir Evelyn de Rothschild Fellowship at Cambridge University

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Dr. Ljungqvist currently serves on the Board of Directors of AP6, a Swedish public pension fund focusing on investments in venture capital and private equity. He has previously served as a securities market regulator via the Nasdaq Listing Council, on the World Economic Forum's Council of Experts overseeing the "Alternative Investments 2020" project, on a World Economic Forum working group tasked with "Rethinking financial innovation", on the UK Department for Business Panel of Experts overseeing the 2014 review of the UK equity markets, and on the supervisory board of mAbxience SA, a European biosimilars company. In the 2000s, he designed alternative investment strategies for Deutsche Bank Securities and Deutsche Bank Asset Management. Over the past 25 years, he has consulted widely on private equity, corporate finance, regulatory economics, corporate strategy, and in high-profile litigation.

Laurent Mayali

Distinguished Professor

• Lloyd M. Robbins Professor of Law

• Director of the Robbins Collection in religious and Civil Law, Berkeley Law

•  Director of the Comparative Legal Studies Program

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After attending the University of Montpellier (France), Laurent Mayali served as a tenured research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt, Germany, and at France’s Center for National Research.
In 1997 he was elected to a chair in Roman Christianity and sources of modern law at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, at the Sorbonne in Paris. He has been a visiting law professor at several universities and has lectured extensively throughout Europe, Africa, and Asia in the areas of legal history and comparative law.

James Robinson

University Professor

• Doctor Honoris Causa, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim,

• Carlos F. Díaz-Alejandro Prize of Outstanding Economic Research

• William H. Riker Prize in Political Science

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As the latest announced Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Prof. Robinson has conducted influential research in the field of political and economic development and the relationships between political power and institutions and prosperity.

 His work explores the underlying causes of economic and political divergence both historically and today and uses both the mathematical and quantitative methods of economics along with the case study, qualitative and fieldwork methodologies used in other social sciences.

SHIZUME Masato 鎮目雅人

Dean

• Dean, The School of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University

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Masato Shizume is a professor of economics at Waseda University. He is appointed as the Dean for the School of Political Science and Economics at Waseda University.

 Professor Shizume’s research focuses on the history of money and credit and the emergence and developments of the modern society and state in Japan. He has published articles, books, and book chapters on the monetary history of Japan both in English and Japanese.

His recent publications include The Emergence and Developments of Credit Money: Evidence from the Pre-modern Period to the Present, 2020 (editor, in Japanese); "Strategic Central Bank Communication: Discourse Analysis of the Bank of Japan's Monthly Report,” Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, vol. 100, 2019 (with Kohei Kawamura, Yōhei Kobashi, and Kōzō Ueda) and more.

Noam Yuchtman

Drummond Professor of Political Economy

• Professor, Department of Management, London School of Economics 2016–2020

• Associate Professor, Business and Public Policy Group, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley 2010–2016

• Assistant Professor, Business and Public Policy Group, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

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​Noam Yuchtman is the Drummond Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Economics at the University of Oxford and All Souls College. In addition to his role at Oxford, Noam is a Managing Editor at the Review of Economic Studies. Noam's research is on topics in the fields of political economy, economic history, and labor economics.