Time: April 25th, 2013 (Thursday) 15: 30--17: 00
Location: Jiageng 2-501
Speaker: Xiaogang Zhang, head of R&D Department of China Financial Futures Exchange
Moderator: Professor Wenzhou Qu
Topic: The Future of China's Financial Futures Market
Personal Profile:
Xiaogang Zhang, head of R&D Department of China Financial Futures Exchange, is a senior economist. He entered the futures industry in 1993, became an analyst of the Ministry of Information of Shanghai Metal Exchange during 1993-1998 and became a senior fellow at the Development Research Center after the Shanghai Metal Exchange and the other two exchanges merged into the Shanghai Futures Exchange in 1999. Since 2002, he served as the director of Strategic Planning Department of the Shanghai Futures Exchange. In 2006, he joined the newly established China Financial Futures Exchange and became head of R&D Department. He is currently responsible for research, product development and international exchanges and cooperation. Long engaged in the development and research of stock index futures, bond futures and other financial derivatives, he is one of the main designers of the Shanghai and Shenzhen 300 index futures. He has been involved in a number of research organized by China Securities Regulatory Commission, Co-published "Stock index futures: idea of theory, experience and market operation ", translated monographs as "the development and supervision of financial derivatives", "flight futures", "option strategies: stocks, stock index and commodity options profit technology".
