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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: Financial market microstructure, Corporate governance & CEO compensation; Firm performance and survival; Financial market integration; 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 (1999-2007). 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 he has attracted three top PhD students funded by the China Scholarship Council. His PhD students have also won UOW scholarships as well as other industrial scholarships. As a principal supervisor, one of his PhD students completed her degree recently and all three of his Honours students graduated with the first Honours degrees awarded at UOW. 

Gary's publication includes more than 50 refereed articles, as well as 10 books and book chapters. Within the two years at UOW he has published nine refereed articles in international journals including the Multinational Finance Journal, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting and the Australian Economic Papers. In addition, he has won 15 internal and external research grants as a chief investigator since 1994, three of which were ARC grants from the Australian Research Council. Recently he won the Faculty Excellence Research Award in 2008. 

Through his research, he has established a network of research collaboration with colleagues in universities in China and other countries such as the Nanyang Business School and Singapore National University. Recently he was invited to deliver an inaugural research seminar for the HRD students at Sun Yat-Set University, ranked as the 8th university in China, in December 2008. 

Gary is now the Director of the newly established Chinese Commerce Research Centre. Through this platform, he further expands his research collaboration with colleagues in other universities and seeks opportunities for joint application of external Chinese national research grants and ARC grants in Australia; improving the relationship with the China Scholarship Council and Chinese consulate-general for attracting top Chinese PhD students and scholars and for supporting and facilitating our staff and HDR students to visit Chinese universities for research collaboration. 

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 and their supervisors in the school.