Biography
Project Title: Essays on Climate Change and Financial Stability
Supervisor: Professor David Aikman, Professor Leone Leonida
Year of Entry: 2021, Full-Time
Yao Dong is a PhD student in Banking & Finance at King's Business School. His research focuses on banking, macroprudential policy, financial stability, and empirical corporate finance. He has also worked on topics related to climate economics and finance.
Yao holds a bachelor’s degree in financial mathematics awarded jointly by Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University and the University of Liverpool and a master’s degree in financial engineering from Imperial College London. Before his PhD study, he completed investment banking internships at CITIC Securities and Central China Securities.