Dr Xiaoyan Zhou

Profile

Dr Xiaoyan Zhou leads the Sustainable Finance Performance theme at the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group. Her research interests focus on Sustainable Investment, Transition Risk and Institutional Shareholder Engagement. She publishes in journals such as the Journal of Business Ethics (FT 50) and serves as reviewer for several academic journals including Nature Climate Changes. She won the PRI 2019 Best Quantitative Paper Award.

She holds a PhD in Finance from ICMA Centre, Henley Business School and MLitt in Finance and Management from University of St Andrews.

Projects

• Energy transition risk & cost of capital
• Stranded assets & transition finance

Publications

Journal articles

• Zhou, X.Y., Caldecott, B., Hoepner, A.G.F. and Wang, Y. (2022) Bank green lending and credit risk: an empirical analysis of China's Green Credit Policy. Business Strategy and the Environment: 1-18.
• Hoepner, A.G., Majoch, A.A. and Zhou, X.Y. (2019) Does an Asset Owner's Institutional Setting Influence Its Decision to Sign the Principles for Responsible Investment? Journal of Business Ethics: 1-26.

Reports

• Zhou, X.Y., Christian, W. and Caldecott, B.L. (2021) The energy transition and changing financing costs, Oxford Sustainable Finance Programme. Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Oxford.
• Caldecott, B., Kruitwagen, L., McCarten, M., Zhou, X., Lunsford, D., Marchand, O., Hadjikyriakou, P., Bickel, V., Sachs, T. and Bohn, N. (2018) Climate risk analysis from space: remote sensing, machine learning, and the future of measuring climate-related risk. Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford (Oxford, UK), Carbon Delta (Zurich, Switzerland), and German Research Centre for Geosciences (Berlin, Germany)