Dr. Tzu-Kuan Chiu is a Term Professor and the Academic Director of the Sustainable Finance Discipline Development Fund at Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF) at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Before joining SAIF, she taught at California State University and worked for corporations in New Jersey. In her previous affiliations, she served in a number of administrative positions to lead the university advancement center and the university museum.
Professor Chiu's research interests include sustainable finance, climate finance, ESG investing, impact measurement and management, and corporate social responsibility. She has authored and edited books such as ESG Ratings for China’s Urban Development, ESG Finance in the New Era, Sustainable Finance, Corporate Governance, and Business Ethics. Professor Chiu has published research papers in sustainable finance, impact investing, and corporate social responsibility in academic journals such as the Management Review and the Journal of Business Ethics.
Professor Chiu has been involved in research, as well as consulting projects, in ESG investing, climate finance, sustainability rating, impact measurement and management, and corporate social responsibility with companies, government agencies, and security exchanges. In addition, she has developed teaching cases in financial inclusion, impact investing, and capital markets for Harvard Business Publishing. Professor Chiu was a pioneer in developing the ESG rating framework for emerging countries with a lack of data. She developed the first ESG database in emerging countries more than a decade ago.
Professor Chiu serves as an independent director on the board of numerous for-profit corporations. She also sits on several not-for-profit boards. Professor Chiu is a member of the Green Finance Committee for Asset Management Association of China, China Securities Index Co., and Miot Technology. In addition, Professor Chiu was a founding member of the Business Ethics Advancement Council in Greater China and a co-founder of the Sustainable Finance Forum—a top-tier global forum with the mission to facilitate ESG-related dialogue and collaborations between academics and practitioners in Asia.
Professor Chiu teaches courses at the MF, MBA, and EMBA levels in “sustainable finance”, “climate finance”, “impact investing”, “finance ethics”, and “ESG and corporate social responsibility”. She has earned numerous teaching awards both inside and outside the university over the past decade. In addition, she is a well-known columnist, writing short essays on ESG-related issues for financial magazines.
Journal Publications
1. Chiu, Tzu-Kuan, and C. Huang, 2019, The Effects of Governance Structures on Corporate Social Responsibility, Sun Yat-Sen Management Review.
2. Chiu, Tzu-Kuan, 2017, Factors Influencing Microfinance Engagements by Formal Financial Institutions, Journal of Business Ethics.
3. Chiu, Tzu-Kuan, and Yi-Hsin Wang, 2015, Determinants of Social Disclosure Quality in Taiwan: An Application of Stakeholder Theory, Journal of Business Ethics.
4. Chiu, Tzu-Kuan, 2014, Putting Responsible Finance to Work for Citi Microfinance, Journal of Business Ethics.
Working Papers
1. Chiu, Tzu-Kuan, 2019, For-profit organizations with a mandated social mission: An analysis of China's microcredit companies. Journal of Business Ethics, R&R, third run.2. Chiu, Tzu-Kuan, 2017, Family Control, Governance Structures, and CSR.
3. Chiu, Tzu-Kuan, 2017, Board Diversity and Its Effect on Social Performance.
4. Chiu, Tzu-Kuan, H. Chih, Y. Chen, and J. Chiu, 2014, Socially responsible investing and short-termism in capital markets.
5. Chiu, Tzu-Kuan, 2014, A Solution to the Data Issue for Emerging Economies: A Baseline Corporate Social Responsibility Database for Taiwan.
