Project Title: Essays in Risk Management

Supervisor: Professor David Aikman, Dr Ylva Baeckström

Year of Entry: 2021, Part-Time

Yanqing Wang is a part-time PhD student in Banking and Finance at King's Business School. Her research explores the intersection of emerging technologies, behavioural finance, risk management, and banking practices. Her PhD focus has expanded beyond cryptocurrencies to include regulatory and risk management in ESG and generative AI—areas closely aligned with her professional expertise.

She holds a Bachelor’s in Law and Business Studies (2011) and a Master’s in Accounting and Finance (2012) from the University of Warwick, as well as an MBA (2019) from Imperial College Business School. Additionally, she holds professional certifications including FRM (Financial Risk Manager), FCCA (Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants), ACMA (Associate Chartered Management Accountant), CGMA (Chartered Global Management Accountant), SCR (Sustainability and Climate Risk) and RAI (Risk and AI), demonstrating expertise in risk management, accounting, sustainable finance, and AI.

Alongside her part-time PhD at King’s Business School, Yanqing continues her full-time career in the UK banking and financial services sector. She started at Barclays in 2012, gaining experience across a wide spectrum of financial and non-financial risks, particularly in credit, conduct, treasury, and liquidity risk. She progressed to Vice President (VP) for model risk in 2017. In 2019, she joined Close Brothers as a risk manager for Premium Finance, covering a broad range of operational risks before moving to the Financial Conduct Authority in 2022. She initially served as a wholesale banking supervisor before transitioning to a financial innovation service specialist, focusing on tokenisation, blockchain, and AI within the regulatory sandbox environment.

Outside her professional and academic roles, she continues to support DEI initiatives through guest speaking at her university and mentoring female minority professionals. She also advocates for workplace mental well-being and holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Psychology & Neuroscience of Mental Health from King’s College London.