Paul B. McGuinness

Tenured Professor, Department of Finance, Chinese University of Hong Kong

He is a Tenured Professor in the Department of Finance at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). While on sabbatical leave from CUHK, he has held visiting professorial positions overseas, as well as the position of Head of Research at the Securities and Futures Commission (in 2000). He has also conducted consultancy work pertaining to securities market-related issues in Hong Kong and the Mainland PRC.

He has taught widely in graduate and executive programmes in the UK, Hong Kong, Mainland China, New Zealand and Australia. His research activities are in financial markets, securities analysis and corporate finance. In the last 3 years, he has published 9 papers in internationally refereed journals, with 6 of these in ABS 3 (***) rated journals and two in ABS 4 (****) rated journals. He has been a recipient of the CUHK BA Faculty Outstanding Teacher Award on 3 separate occasions and has also received a Merit Award from CUHK on 2 separate occasions for his work for the MBA programmes.

He obtained a PhD at the University of Leeds (UK), an MPhil Degree at the University of Cambridge (UK) and a B.A. Honours (First Class) Degree at the University of Newcastle (UK).