I am an economist with research interests in gender identity, management, and business organizations. I teach courses on economics, strategic management, and cross-cultural communication.

Growing up in one of the oldest girls’ school in Hong Kong, I pursued economic trainings in mainland China, US and Germany. The experiences have sustaintially shaped my interest in identity, especially its variations across contexts and implications for organizations and societies.

My primary research interest is gender identity in the corporate sector. A book based on recent investigations on gendered leadership in China’s largest companies will be published by Routledge in August 2022, entitled The Economics of Gender in China: Women, Work and The Glass Ceiling. It untangles gender and Chinese companies in terms of multi-disciplinary evidence, with identity economics at its core. My secondary projects question the relevance of identity in understanding female entrepreneurship and individual behavior of Generation Z.

I teach by case-based learning and extend my interest in identity to various organizational and societal settings. Strategic management explores the leader’s identity and decision making, whereas cross-cultural communication encourages students to understand the different identities, and to gain the skills to collaborate effectively.