Mr Yao Dong

Project Title: Climate Transition Risk and the Financial System

Supervisor: Professor David Aikman, Professor Leone Leonida

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 lie primarily in financial stability and climate change. His current research project focuses on climate stress testing.

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.