Hao Zhou is the Unigroup Chair Professor of finance and Associate Dean of PBC School of Finance and the Vice Chair of National Institute of Financial Research (NIFR) at Tsinghua University. Before 2013, he was a senior economist at Federal Reserve Board. Hao received a PhD degree in economics from Duke University in 2000. He is the general secretary for the review committee of Sun Yefang Financial Innovation Award.

Hao’s research agenda covers the areas of variance risk premiums on stock, bond, currency, and credit markets, systemic risk and macro-prudential regulation of financial institutions, China financial markets and reforms. He has published in leading academic journals like Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economic, among others.