Dr Jun Gao

Biography

Dr Jun Gao is a Lecturer in Economics at Cork University Business School, University College Cork. She serves as Programme Director of the MSc Finance (Banking and Risk Management). Her research spans sustainable finance, asset pricing, fund performance, and monetary policy, with a focus on sustainable investment and carbon/ESG markets.

Dr Gao’s work appears in international, peer-reviewed outlets in finance and economics, and she has secured competitive funding from national agencies and university schemes, including recent coordination and research development awards. She serves as a reviewer for multiple leading journals and conferences and has been recognised with research excellence and early-career awards. She represented Ireland at the 6th Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Economic Sciences.

She teaches across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, leading modules in financial economics, econometrics, and investment analysis that integrate portfolio simulation and empirical data analytics (R, STATA). She supervises PhD and master’s research on sustainable finance, asset pricing, and ESG investing, and has examined numerous postgraduate dissertations.

Beyond academia, Dr Gao collaborates with industry on projects in macro-finance, asset pricing, and risk management, maintaining partnerships with Irish and international asset managers.