Dr. Chuanwei David Zou, Director of Frontier Research Center at Shanghai Institute for Finance and Development, Chief Economist of Wanxiang Blockchain.

Previously, Dr. Zou held various positions in China Investment Corporation (CIC) and Nanhu Finance Corporation from 2006 to 2019. He received Ph.D. in Economics from Tsinghua University, Mid-Career MPA from Harvard University, M.A. in economics and B.S. in Statistics from Peking University. In 2015, Dr. Zou was a winner of the 1st Sun Yefang Prize for Financial Innovation and the 5th China Soft Science Prize for his research on fintech. In 2019, he was nominated as one of the "top 10 institutional economists of the year" by China Business Network. In 2024, Dr. Zou won the Jinyang Prize for financial books.