Biography
Project Title: Banking and Finance, Systemic Risk, Climate Change
Supervisor: Professor David Aikman
Year of Entry: 2021, full-time
Yao Dong joined Qatar Centre for Global Banking and Finance, King's Business School as a PhD student in 2021. His research interests include banking and finance, systemic risk, and climate change. Currently, he is interested in climate stress-testing.
Yao holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics with Finance from University of Liverpool and a Master’s degree in financial engineering from Imperial College London. Before starting the PhD study, he has completed investment banking internships at CITIC Securities and Central China Securities, and a research internship at Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange.