Gary Tian

BSc (Shanghai Uni. of Science and Technology), Dip. Bus. Stud (Shanghai Foreign Trade Institute), MEcon (SUFE), MApplFin, PhD (Macquarie)

Telephone: (02) 4221 4301
Location: 40.301
Email: gary_tian@uow.edu.au

Areas of Expertise: Corporate governance and CEO compensation; Political connection and firm performance; Disproportional ownership, state controlled and family controlled firms; Financial market integration; Market microstructure and Chinese financial markets

Research Profile: UOW RIS Profile

Gary Tian is the Associate Professor of Finance in the School of Accounting and Finance at the University of Wollongong. Before he joined the University, he worked at the Bank of China (1982-1984), Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (1987-1989), Macquarie University (1990-1992), Latrobe University (1994-1996), Flinders University (1996-1998) and the University of Western Sydney (1999-2006). In addition to various finance courses, he has also taught the MBA and Master of Applied Finance courses at Macquarie MGSM, Nanyang Business School, and South China University of Technology. He has also conducted several high-level financial executives training courses overseas. He has supervised students in research at all levels including Honours, Masters and Ph.D. students.

Since joining the UOW, his five doctoral students and one masters by research student completed their higher research degrees. A joint paper with one of his PhD students received a Best Paper Award from the Financial Management Association in 2010. Joint papers with his PhD students and other international co-authors are now entering the reviews for the prestigious journals including the Review of Financial Studies and Journal of Accounting Research. A number of his PhD students were funded by the China Scholarship Council and another PhD student received Australian Postgraduate Award (APA). His PhD students have also won UOW scholarships as well as other industrial scholarships. He is also actively engaged in undergraduate honours supervision. His four undergraduate honours students completed their theses, for which these students received first class honours.

Gary's publication includes 38 refereed journal articles, as well as 10 books and book chapters. His publications have reached journals including the Journal of Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance: An International Review, Journal of Asian-Pacific Economy, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Accounting and Finance, Multinational Finance Journal, and Australian Economic History Review. In addition, he has won 20 internal and external research grants as a chief investigator since 1994, three of which were ARC grants from the Australian Research Council. He also won the Faculty Excellence Research Award in 2008.

Gary established a Chinese Commerce Research Centre (CCRC) in 2008 and acted as its director with financial support from the Faculty of Commerce at the UOW. Research collaboration between the Centre and other universities has been expanded markedly since the CCRC establishment. These universities include Singapore Management University, Fudan University, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Sun Yat-Set University in China and University of Utah in the States. The Centre has published numerous articles in highly-ranked journals and won a few research grants including an ARC Linkage Grant and the Chunhui Research Grant from the Ministry of Education in China.

He has served as the Head of Postgraduate Studies in the School since April 2007. He is responsible for the management and administration of postgraduate research studies, including both PhD and Masters by research students in the school.