Professor Huainan Zhao

PhD (Durham)

  • Professor of Finance

Expertise: corporate finance; mergers and acquisitions; financial markets.

Research groups and centres

Huainan joined Loughborough University in 2016 as Professor of Finance. Prior to that, he was Professor of Corporate Finance at Cranfield University School of Management (2012-2016), Associate Professor at Nottingham University Business School (2010-2012), and Assistant Professors at CASS Business School (2006-2010) and Durham University Business School (2003-2006). He chaired the Scientific Panel of Business Economics and Management at the Academy of Finland (2015-2016); and visited and taught at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2014), EDHEC Business School (2011), Renmin University of China (2007-2010), and Chinese Academy of Social Science (2006). He has been external examiner at Universities of Bristol, Manchester, Bath, and Queen Mary.