Professor Winnie Qian Peng is Associate Professor in Business Practice of Finance, Director of Roger King Center for Asian Family Business and Family Office, Director of Thompson Center for Business Case Studies, and Co-Director of MSc in Family Office and Family Business program at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). She is also Academic Advisor of Legacy Academy, Fellow and Head of Center of Excellence – Legacy at Respada (a global family office platform), Academic Advisor of Asia Institute of Art & Finance, Founding Committee Member of the Case Center of Association of Asia-Pacific Business Schools, and Instructor for PEVC training program of the Hong Kong Venture Capital Association.

Professor Peng also serves as an independent non-executive Director and a member of the Remuneration Committee of ARTA TechFin (a listed financial services company in Hong Kong). She is also a former Board Member of International Family Enterprise Research Academy (IFERA, the largest membership association of family business scholars in the world) and former Director for Education of Family Office Association Hong Kong.

Prof. Peng has 20 years’ extensive research and teaching experience in the areas of family business, family office, succession planning, impact investing, family philanthropy, etc. Her research articles have been published in academic journals as well as international and local media. She has written many case studies on Asian family businesses and family offices. Prof. Peng offers tailor-made family business and family office courses to HKUST students, family business owners and ultra-high-net-wealth individuals around the world. She is a frequent speaker at local and international conferences.

Professor Peng received her Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Tsinghua University, and her PhD degree in Finance from HKUST. She is also a graduate of Harvard Business School Executive Education program “Private Equity and Venture Capital”.

Teaching and research interests: family business, family office, family governance, family philanthropy, impact investing, etc.