Dr Jenny Wang
| Name | Dr Jenny Wang |
|---|---|
| Email Address | jenny.wang2@unisq.edu.au |
| Job Title | Senior Lecturer (Finance) |
| Qualifications | GDipRschMeth Qld, MBus QUT, PhD NUSingapore, PhD Qld |
| Department | Centre for Applied Climate Sciences (Operations) |
| School of Business |
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Biography
Jenny has a multidisciplinary education and research background in engineering, accounting, and finance/economics. She also has extensive industry experience working as an analyst and accounts manager in the banking and real estate sectors. She has collaborated with Australian governments (including the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), the Australian Taxation Office (ATO), Queensland Rail), industry sectors (Rio Tinto, SunWater), professional parties (PWC, KPMG, BDO), and institutes/universities (UQ, QUT, Griffith Uni., etc). Jenny’s current research interests include climate/sustainable finance, Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), Environmental, social, and governance (ESG), and innovative financial tools (e.g., weather index insurance) for risk transfer. Jenny was also a member of the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) at the Australian Sustainable Finance Institute (ASFI), 2022-2023. The TAG is an expert group of key financial market stakeholders and subject matter experts to provide technical input and advice to deliver the ASFI Taxonomy initiative, which aims to develop an Australian sustainable finance taxonomy and ultimately support the transition to net-zero emissions goals. Over the year, three relevant consultation reports were delivered. Jenny has been awarded the CFA Institute's Certificate in ESG Investing. Jenny has recently secured the ARC Early Career Industry Fellowship grant ($431,000) in the inaugural round (2023). She is the only successful applicant from UniSQ in the past two rounds (2023, 2024), and the only one nationwide with FoR code 3502 (Banking, finance and investment).
Employment
| Position | Organisation | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior Lecturer | School of Business | 2024 | |
| Lecturer | School of Business | 2023 | 2024 |
Teaching
FIN6101 Fintech Innovation
Fields of Research
- 350103. Financial accounting
- 350107. Sustainability accounting and reporting
- 350201. Environment and climate finance
- 350202. Finance
- 350203. Financial econometrics
- 350204. Financial institutions (incl. banking)
- 350206. Insurance studies
- 380101. Agricultural economics
- 380107. Financial economics
- 380199. Applied economics not elsewhere classified
- 410199. Climate change impacts and adaptation not elsewhere classified
- 490106. Financial mathematics
- 490302. Numerical analysis
- 490303. Numerical solution of differential and integral equations
Professional Membership
| Professional Membership | Year |
|---|---|
| Associate Fellowship, Higher Education Academy (AFHEA) | |
| CPA Australia | |
| Certificate in ESG Investing, CFA Institute | |
| Accounting & Finance Association of Australia & New Zealand (AFAANZ) |
GDipRschMeth
Qld
2009
MBus
QUT
2010
PhD
NUSingapore
2005
PhD
Qld
2020
Current Supervisions
| Research Title | Supervisor Type | Level of Study | Commenced |
|---|---|---|---|
| Optimise innovative financial products for Climate Risk Management in Agribusiness | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2024 |
| From Perceived Financial Constraints and Information on Rejected Options to Subjective Well-being: the roles of Opportunity Cost Consideration and Regret | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2024 |
| Performance of Crop Insurance and Farmer's Willingness to Pay: A case of Cotton Farmers in Tamil Nadu | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2023 |
| A comparative study of the operational efficiency of low-cost carriers during pre- and post-Covid-19 eras: China and Southeast Asia | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2023 |
| Project title | Details | Year |
|---|---|---|
| National Industry PhD Program grant | Four-year program. Total funding includes: Industry PhD support of $46,458 p.a. (equivalent scholarship) + $11,614 p.a. (adm. cost). | 2025 |
| ECR Program Seed Grant | $10,000 | 2025 |
| ARC Early Career Industry Fellowships | This project aims to customise weather index insurance (WII) by utilising machine learning techniques. WII is used as a type of risk management tool in the agriculture sector to transfer risk due to extreme weather events. Significantly this project expects to establish an accurate correlation between insurance payouts and actual losses and thus improve the WII uptake rate. This will effectively support farmers and agribusinesses in Australia to mitigate and adapt to climate change, help reduce the impact of climate change and ensure crop production and food security.($431,000) | 2023 |
| Solutions for renewable energy supply and risk in global banking | $20,000 | 2023 |
| AFAANZ grant | The Predictive Roles of Systematic and Idiosyncratic Skewness in International Stock Markets ($4,600) | 2022 |
| UQ Strategic seed fund | $5,000 | 2021 |
| Item reviewed | Year |
|---|---|
| Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money | |
| International Review of Financial Analysis | |
| International Review of Economics and Finance | |
| Humanities and Social Sciences Communications | |
| American Journal of Climate Change | |
| Journal of Accounting and Public Policy | |
| Case Studies on Transport Policy | |
| Global Finance Journal |