Editorial Team

Lin William Cong is the Rudd Family Endowed Chair Professor of Management and Professor of Finance at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, where he is the founding faculty director for the FinTech Initiative. He is also an Editor at the Management Science, an associate editor for multiple leading academic and practitioner journals, a Research Associate (senior research fellow) at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a senior fellow and founding track director at the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research (ABFER), a faculty scientist at the Initiative for Cryptocurrencies & Contracts (IC3), the lead founder of multiple international research forums, and formerly a Kauffman Foundation Junior Faculty Fellow, an UBRI Educator Awardee, a Poets & Quants 40 under 40 World Best Business School Professor, a 2022 Top 10 Quant Professor. He is one of the founding scholars and most influential economists for FinTech research. He has won numerous paper prizes and research grants and is a highly sought-after keynote speaker at various international conferences and forums. He has also advised multiple leading investment and FinTech firms and has been invited to consult for or advise government and regulatory agencies around the globe.