| PROGRAM CHAIRS | |
| Xuan Tian | Tsinghua University |
| Xiaoyan Zhang | Tsinghua University |
| PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS (in Alphabetical Order) | |
| Hengjie Ai | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| Li An | Tsinghua University |
| Jinhui Bai | Washington State University |
| Turan G. Bali | Georgetown University |
| Brad M. Barber | University of California, Davis |
| Geert Bekaert | Columbia University |
| Jan Bena | University of British Columbia |
| Max Bruche | Humboldt University of Berlin |
| Charles Cao | Pennsylvania State University |
| Huafeng Chen | Fudan University |
| Zhuo Chen | Tsinghua University |
| Ing-Haw Cheng | University of Toronto |
| Jaewon Choi | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Yongqiang Chu | University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
| Lauren H. Cohen | Harvard University |
| Francesco D'Acunto | Georgetown University |
| Amil Dasgupta | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| Jens Dick-Nielsen | Copenhagen Business School |
| Winston Dou | University of Pennsylvania |
| Itamar Drechsler | University of Pennsylvania |
| Mark Flannery | University of Florida |
| Vyacheslav (Slava) Fos | Boston College |
| Hao Gao | Tsinghua University |
| Pengjie Gao | Notre Dame University |
| Olesya V. Grishchenko | Federal Reserve Board |
| Allaudeen Hameed | National University of Singapore |
| Bing Han | University of Toronto |
| Jie (Jack) He | University of Georgia |
| Ping He | Tsinghua University |
| Robert J. Hodrick | Columbia University |
| Grace Xing Hu | Tsinghua University |
| Jing Huang | Texas A&M University |
| Zhengyang Jiang | Northwestern University |
| Lawrence J. Jin | Cornell University |
| Tao Jin | Tsinghua University |
| Jiandong Ju | Tsinghua University |
| Peter Kelly | Notre Dame University |
| Zhisheng Li | Zhongnan University of Economics and Law |
| Bibo Liu | Tsinghua University |
| Laura Xiaolei Liu | Peking University |
| Yu-Jane Liu | Peking University |
| Clark Liu | Tsinghua University |
| Tong Liu | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Roger K. Loh | Singapore Management University |
| Juan M. Londono | Federal Reserve Board |
| Dong Lou | The London School of Economics and Political Science |
| Christian Lundblad | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Massimo Massa | INSEAD |
| William L. Megginson | University of Oklahoma |
| David Tat-Chee Ng | Cornell University |
| Boris Nikolov | University of Lausanne |
| Veronika Krepely Pool | Vanderbilt University |
| Wenlan Qian | National University of Singapore |
| Gideon Saar | Cornell University |
| Ivan Shaliastovich | University of Wisconsin Madison |
| Mila Getmansky Sherman | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Zhan Shi | Tsinghua University |
| Kelly Shue | Yale University |
| Stephan Siegel | University of Washington |
| Zheng Michael Song | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Yang Song | University of Washington |
| Qian Sun | Fudan University |
| Andrea Vedolin | Boston University |
| Hao Wang | Tsinghua University |
| Jian Wang | Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen |
| Yongxiang Wang | Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
| Zhengwei Wang | Tsinghua University |
| Kairong Xiao | Columbia University |
| Dacheng Xiu | University of Chicago |
| Chenzi Xu | Stanford University |
| Guo Xu | University of California, Berkeley |
| Jiajie Xu | University of Iowa |
| Hongjun Yan | DePaul University |
| Liyan Yang | University of Toronto |
| Baozhong Yang | Georgia State University |
| Ming Yang | University College London |
| Hanyi (Livia) Yi | Boston College |
| Jianfeng Yu | Tsinghua University |
| Xiaoyun Yu | Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
| Yue Yuan | Tsinghua University |
| Yao Zeng | University of Pennsylvania |
| Fudong Zhang | Tsinghua University |
| Hong Zhang | Singapore Management University |
| Ji Zhang | Tsinghua University |
| Weiqiang Zhang | Tsinghua University |
| Xueyong Zhang | Central University of Finance and Economics |
| Lu Zhang | Ohio State University |
| Hao Zhou | Tsinghua University; Southern University of Science and Technology |
| Zhen Zhou | Tsinghua University |
| Xiaodong Zhu | The University of Hong Kong |