Professor Xiaoqing (Maggie) Fu

Xiaoqing (Maggie) Fu is the Program Director of Doctoral of Business Administration and Professor in Finance and Business Economics at the Faculty of Business Administration, University of Macau.

In addition, she had served as the Founding Associate/Acting Dean of the newly established Graduate School at the University of Macau for six years. She obtained her PhD degree in Finance at the Cass Business School of City University (London). Prior to joining the University of Macau, she had been working in both the central bank and a large commercial bank in China for around ten years. Her main research interests are in sustainable finance, responsible innovation, Fintech, banking, and corporate governance. In particular, inspired by the core research question of how finance and innovation can better promote sustainable development, she has dedicated herself to studying the characteristics of banks in enhancing financial stability, the roles of institutional investors in fostering sustainable growth, and the mechanisms through which innovation can be stimulated in tackling grand challenges such as climate change, poverty, inequality, and health. She is the Associate Editor for the Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, a peer-reviewed journal affiliated with the Chinese Economic Association (UK/Europe) and published by Taylor & Francis. Her research has been published in various leading international journals, including Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of World Business, Journal of Product Innovation Management, etc. In addition, she has a monograph entitled “Bank Competition, Efficiency and Liquidity Creation in Asia Pacific”, which was published by Palgrave Macmillan (London). She has also been appointed the Director of the Responsible Innovation Working Group and the Deputy Director of the FinTech Working Group by the Sino-UK Innovation Research Network.