Associate ProfessorNing Gong

Dr Ning Gong is the Course Director of the Master of Finance and an Associate Professor of Finance at Deakin Business School. He earned his PhD in Finance from Washington University in St. Louis. Prior to joining Deakin, he held academic positions at the University of Melbourne and the University of New South Wales, and served as a visiting faculty member at the University of California, Davis.

Dr Gong teaches across postgraduate and research programs, including Financial Institutions and Investment Banking in the Master of Finance, and Advanced Finance for Master by Research and PhD students. He received the Teaching Excellence Award from Melbourne Business School in 2007.

His research focuses broadly on corporate finance. He has received multiple accolades, including the Best Research Paper Award from the Australian Journal of Management (2001, 2004) and the International Review of Finance (2013). His work has been published in leading journals such as the Review of Finance, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Business Accounting and Finance, and Production and Operations Management, among others.