People · Board Observer
Alan Kwan
Observer; epistemic rigour
Associate Professor of Finance, HKUPhD CornellBA Dartmouth
People · Board Observer
Observer; epistemic rigour
Associate Professor of Finance, HKUPhD CornellBA Dartmouth
The observer
BakLok's clients speak into regulated, high-stakes environments — financial institutions, investment decisions, boards. The credibility of that coaching depends on the terrain being understood precisely, not approximately.
Alan Kwan observes the practice's standard from that vantage. As Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Hong Kong and Programme Director of the Master of Finance in Financial Technology, his research is the terrain: how regulation, information and technology move financial markets and the people inside them.
His work is published in the discipline's most selective journals — the American Economic Review, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, Management Science and Science Advances.
His presence keeps the practice's fluency honest.
His discipline
Understand what regulation, information and technology actually do to the people in the market — then speak from that ground, not around it.
It is the same demand BakLok makes of its clients: authority in the room comes from command of the terrain, not performance of confidence. Kwan's role is to keep the practice's ground rigorously mapped.
Background
Selected research
On inquiry