Dr. Jun Pan is a Professor of Finance and SAIF Chair Professor at the Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF), Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Prior to joining SAIF, she was the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Her research areas encompass Chinese financial markets, fintech, asset pricing, financial derivatives markets, credit risk models, financial crises, market liquidity, market microstructure, risk management, and fixed income markets. She has published more than 20 papers in leading international academic journals, including Econometrica, the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies, and the Journal of Financial Economics.

Professor Pan currently serves as Department Editor for Finance at Management Science and as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Finance. She previously served as Editor of the Review of Finance and as an Associate Editor of the Review of Financial Studies. She has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research (ABFER) since 2014 and joined its Executive Committee in June 2024. She has also served as a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and was named to Elsevier’s list of “China’s Most Cited Researchers” in each year from 2021 to 2025.

Professor Pan has received numerous academic honors, including the 2015 Stephen A. Ross Prize in Financial Economics, the 2021 CICF Best Paper Award, the 2024 WRDS Best Paper Award, and the 2026 CICF XiYue Best Paper Award.

Professor Pan obtained her Ph.D. in Physics from New York University in 1995 and her Ph.D. in Finance from Stanford University in 2000.