Ting Xu

Education: B.A., Renmin University of China; M.Sc., Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Ph.D., University of British Columbia

Ting Xu is an assistant professor of finance at the University of Virginia, Darden School of Business. His research focuses on entrepreneurial finance, FinTech and family firms. His work has explored angel financing, crowdfunding, innovation diffusion, labor market frictions in entrepreneurship, and governance of private firms. His work has been published in leading academic journals, such as the Review of Financial Studies and the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and has been featured in news outlets such as Bloomberg, NPR, BBC, MarketWatch, and Politico. His research has received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Canadian Securities Institute Research Foundation, and Canadian Foundation for Governance Research.

At Darden, he teaches "Financial Management and Policies." Before that, he taught "Corporate Finance" at the University of British Columbia, where he received a Ph.D. in Finance. He also holds a B.A. in Finance from Renmin University of China and an M.Sc. in Economics from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.