Profile
Professor Qingwei Wang is the co-founder and co-director of Cardiff Fintech Research Group, and has previously directed the Cardiff Empirical Finance Group and Centre for China Business Research. Before joining Cardiff in 2014, Professor Wang was a Lecturer in Finance at Bangor Business School, and a researcher at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW, Mannheim, Germany), where he engaged in projects with Deutsche Bank, German Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour, and German Science Foundation.
Professor Wang's research agenda focuses on three areas of finance: Fintech, Sustainable Finance, and Behavioural Finance. His work in Fintech investigates crypto assets, machine learning applications, and big data investing. In Sustainable Finance, he examines ESG, CSR, greenwashing, and climate risk. In Behavioural Finance, he explores how biases like investor sentiment and attention influence financial decision-making and how technology can amplify or mitigate these human biases to affect financial markets. His contributions to the field are published in internationally recognised journals such as Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Empirical Finance, European Financial Management, and International Journal of Forecasting.
Professor Qingwei Wang, Cardiff UniversityAs an academic, I travel the world for knowledge exchange, but bringing the world back to Wales is where my passion lies. Being part of the Ambassador Wales | Llysgennad Cymru Network is an extension of my daily work at Cardiff University; it is a commitment to showcase Wales as a nation of innovation as well as tradition. It means a great deal to me to ensure that when delegates leave our region, they take with them not just cutting-edge research insights, but a lasting memory of Welsh hospitality, the distinct heritage, and the breathtaking landscape."
