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Jun Gao

Lecturer

 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7384-8171
20172026

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Biography

Dr Jun Gao is a Lecturer in Economics at Cork University Business School, University College Cork, and Programme Director of the MSc Finance (Banking and Risk Management). She is a financial economist whose research focuses on asset pricing, financial markets, monetary policy and sustainable finance, including carbon and ESG markets. Her research is published in internationally recognised, peer‑reviewed journals in finance and economics and has contributed to academic, industry and policy discussions on financial markets and investment behaviour.
 
Dr Gao has secured competitive research funding from national agencies and institutional schemes and maintains an active programme of research development, including large‑scale national and European funding applications. She represented Ireland at the 6th Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Economic Sciences.
 
She provides academic leadership through school‑level governance roles, serving as Co‑Chair of the Ethics, Responsibility and Sustainability (ERS) Committee and as PRME Lead for Cork University Business School. She supervises doctoral and postgraduate researchers and is actively engaged in internationally collaborative and industry‑engaged research initiatives in finance.


Research Interests

Sustainable Finance; Asset Pricing; Financial Markets; Empirical Finance; Market Liquidity; Monetary Policy.

Teaching Activities

Dr Gao teaches across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in finance and economics, with a focus on financial economics, asset pricing and applied empirical analysis. Her teaching is research‑led and integrates real‑world financial data, portfolio analysis and empirical methods to develop students’ analytical and critical capabilities. She has extensive experience supervising postgraduate and doctoral research and contributes to curriculum design and programme development at under- and post-graduate level.

PhD Supervision

  • Available for PhD supervision

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  1. SDG 4 - Quality Education
    SDG 4 Quality Education
  2. SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
    SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
  3. SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
    SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
  4. SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals
    SDG 17 Partnerships for the Goals

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