Professor Dong Xiang is a New Zealander holding a Permanent Resident ID Card of the People’s Republic of China (Five-Star Card). He received his PhD in Finance from the University of Newcastle, Australia, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Griffith University.

He is currently a Foreign Professor at Qilu University of Technology, China Node Leader of the International Society of Pitching Research for Responsible Science (InSPiR2eS), and a member of the International Council for Small Business (ICSB). He has also served as Director of the International Research Centre for Digital Finance and Enterprise Development and Foreign Dean of the International Business School at Shandong Normal University.

Professor Xiang’s research interests include FinTech, digital finance, SME financing and innovation, and financial market efficiency. He has published more than 70 academic papers, including nine ABS 3* articles. His study on FinTech and Chinese SMEs was recognized as an ESI highly cited hot paper, and his work on Australian government SME support was the most downloaded paper of 2023 in Accounting Research Journal. He has also received the Best Paper Award at the Australia–New Zealand SME Research Forum.

He serves as a reviewer for over 30 international journals, including Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Economic Modelling, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, and World Development. In 2022, he was Guest Editor for a special issue in Economic Modelling and organized an international conference that drew over 800 participants worldwide.

Professor Xiang has taught extensively in Australia and China, delivering finance and economics courses in English to international and domestic students. He has also supervised numerous postgraduate students to successful completion, linking research excellence with teaching innovation.