The Wei Cai and Lan Xue Faculty in Residence Program broadens and strengthens the school’s visibility and impact in Hong Kong and across Asia.

Each faculty in residence advances their research agendas during their time in the region and focuses on external activities while in Hong Kong, including serving as ambassadors for Booth, representing the school’s intellectual capital, and exploring program and partnership potential.

Current Faculty in Residence

Emanuele Colonnelli

Emanuele Colonnelli is the Joseph L. Gidwitz Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship, and the Cai-Xue FIR for Autumn Quarter 2026. He serves as board member and co-chair of the Finance Sector at the Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), leads the Finance and Entrepreneurship Theme at the CEPR-FCDO's PEDL initiative, co-directs the Becker Friedman Institute (BFI) LATAM, and he is a research associate at NBER, CEPR, and BREAD. Colonnelli’s research focuses on the intersection between finance, development, and political economy, with a special interest in high-growth entrepreneurship and the interaction between governments, firms, and investors.

Past Faculty in Residence

Amy Ward

Amy Ward, Rothman Family Professor of Operations Management and Charles M. Harper Faculty Fellow, was the Cai-Xue FIR for Winter Quarter 2026. Amy Ward's research focuses on the approximation and control of stochastic systems, with applications to the service industry. Much of her past work has focused on the impact of customer impatience and abandonments on performance. Her more recent work investigates the interactions between behavioral incentives and operational efficiency in service systems.

Bernd Wittenbrink

Bernd Wittenbrink, the Robert S. Hamada Professor of Behavioral Science, was the Cai-Xue FIR for Spring Quarter 2025. Wittenbrink is interested in the psychology of person perception and social judgment, specifically the influence that stereotypes and group attitudes may have on people’s decisions and behaviors. His research has been published in premier journals of social psychology, such as the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and Social Cognition. His book on recent developments in attitude measurement, Implicit Measures of Attitudes, coauthored with N. Schwarz, is published by Guilford Press.

Tengyuan Liang

Tengyuan Liang, professor of econometrics and statistics and William Ladany Faculty Fellow, was the second Raymond Hung faculty in residence in Hong Kong during Spring Quarter 2024. Professor Liang’s research focuses on problems at the intersection of inference, learning, and optimization. He is the recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award. His research has appeared in journals such as Econometrica, The Annals of Statistics, the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, the Journal of the American Statistical Association, and the Journal of Machine Learning Research, among others.

Haresh Sapra

Haresh Sapra, the Charles T. Horngren Professor of Accounting, was the first Raymond Hung faculty in residence in Hong Kong during Winter Quarter 2024. Sapra studies the real effects of accounting measurement policies, disclosure regulation, and corporate governance. He is currently the editor of the Journal of Accounting Research. Sapra has also won teaching awards in all the programs at Booth.

Hong Kong The Wei Cai and Lan Xue Faculty in Residence Program