Dr. Wei is Associate Dean of Tsinghua Institute of FinTech Research at People’s Bank of China School of Finance (PBCSF) of Tsinghua University, spearheading PBCSF’s development of its North America Center in New York to expand the schools’ executive education and research outreach. He is also Senior Advisor and former Senior MD at the New York office of Zenity Holdings, a global industrial investment corporation headquartered in China with total AUM of more than $60bn. Prior to Zenity, he was Head of Credit Research at American International Group (AIG), reporting to AIG’s Chief Credit Officer with research covering total AUM of $300bn. Prior to AIG, he was Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, and earlier Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Dr. Wei has also been Research Fellow at Wharton Financial Institutions Center, and is currently Chairman of Board of The Chinese Finance Association (TCFA), the largest global association of Chinese finance professionals worldwide. He is former President of TCFA from 2014 to 2015 and is founding Chair of TCFA Best Paper Symposium. He holds a Ph.D. in Finance from Stern School of Business at New York University, a M.S. in Economics from University of Texas at Austin, and a B.A. (Finance) from Tsinghua SEM.