Professor Ping Zhang
Chinese Co Director of SCIBC
Ping moved to Edinburgh with her family and joined the Confucius Institute in August 2018 and comes to us from Tianjin University where she holds the posts of Doctoral Advisor, Professor (Public Finance and Administration) and is our Co-Director. Ping’s research focuses on public financial administration of local governments, particularly risk management of public debt. She has been awarded two research projects that have been supported by the National Social Science Foundation of China which is the top official fund in China. Ping has also been a visiting scholar at Stanford University, USA.
Ping has published more than 45 academic papers, many of which have been cited by China Social Science Citation Index. She has been invited to be a lecture presenter at many international conferences, including the 32nd Annual Congress of the European Economic Association, the G200 Youth Forum and the Asian Conference of Finance and Economics.
