Yonggan Zhao
Professor of Finance
Canada Research Chair (tier II) in Risk Management

School of Business Administration
Faculty of Management
Dalhousie University
Halifax, NS B3H 3J5
Canada
Phone: (902)494-6972,    Fax: (902)494-1503

Education 
Ph.D. (British Columbia), M.Sc. (Western Kentucky),  B. Sc. (Anhui, China)
Email: yonggan.zhao@dal.ca

Teaching
Comm 4250 (Theory of Finance), Busi 6202 (Derivatives & Securities)
Biography
On July 1,  2006, I was recruited to the School of Business Administration at Dalhousie University under the Canada Research Chairs program.  Prior to joining Dalhousie University, I worked as an Assistant Professor at Nanyang Techonological University in Singapore from January 2001 to June 2006. I hold both a BSc and a MSc in Mathematics and had been teaching mathematics before pursuing a doctorate degree in 1996.   I received a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of British Columbia in 2001.
Research
Asset Pricing Models, Financial Risk Management, Mutual Fund Performance Evaluations, Market Bubbles, Risk Premium and Volatility, Option Pricing Models