Yankun Hou, Professor of Finance (Practice-track) at International School of Finance, Fudan University.

Dr. Hou, former UBS Vice President of the Investment Banking for Asia Pacific and Managing Director. He has worked in many world's leading financial institutions, such as UBS, Nomura and Lehman Brothers. With nearly 20 years of experience in Equity Research as well as Investment Banking. During his career at UBS from 2011~2022, Dr. Hou began his career in the Research Department as Head of China Research, where he was repeatedly ranked as the No. 1 analyst in Asia's automotive sector by Institutional Investor. He has also been awarded as the No. 3 strategy analyst in China. Later on, Dr.Hou has been the head of the industry groups for the Asia-Pacific region and Vice Chairman for Asia, with overall responsibility for the Asia Pacific Pan-industrial investment banking business. During this period, he led the team to complete many milestone domestic and international capital market financing projects.

Dr. Hou received his Master of Business Administration from Cornell University, Ph.D. in Chemistry from Tokyo Institute of Technology, and B.S. from Fudan University. He also worked at Yale University, Medical School from 2000~2002 as Postdoctoral research scientist.