Alumni Chat - Harry Feng (BlackRock)

📅 Date: Friday, December 6th

🕐 Time: 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM

📍 Location: Mudd 303

Harry Feng is a Managing Director in Electronic

Trading & Market Structure at BlackRock in New

York.

Before joining BlackRock, he ran the Quantitative

Trading business at Kershner Trading Group. He also

served as Managing Director, Global Head of

Electronic Trading, Trading Research and Analytics at

AQR Capital Management in Greenwich, CT. Prior to

AQR, Harry led teams specializing in market making,

electronic trading, statistical arbitrage, and quantitative research at

several prominent sell-side firms in New York and Tokyo, including JP

Morgan, Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs. In early part of his

career, he spent 3 years in management consulting at McKinsey &

Company, working in both the US and Asia.

Since 2017, Harry has been on the faculty of Fudan University in

Shanghai as a Professor of Practice in Finance, where he teaches

graduate and EMBA courses in Market Microstructure and Behavioral

Finance. His academic research has been published in prestigious

journals such as the Journal of Finance, Review of Finance and

Pacific-Basin Finance Journal. His paper "Do Investor Sophistication

and Trading Experience Eliminate Behavioral Biases in Financial

Markets" won the 2006 GSAM Prize for Best Paper from the European

Finance Association.

Harry holds a B.A. in mathematics and statistics, and an M.S. in

Operations Research, both from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in

Finance from Harvard University. Harry is also a CFA charterholder.