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Song Zhang

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 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3673-2460

  • School of Management, Gateway Building, North Haugh, St Andrews, KY16 9RJ, UK

Accepting Postgraduate Research Students

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Teaching activity

Teaching 2025-2026

FI5616 Financial Statement Analysis and Valuation

FI5610 Risk Management

Biography

Dr Song Zhang joined the University of St Andrews in August 2019 as a lecturer in Banking & Finance. He holds a PhD in Finance from the University of Surrey and a BSc in Biotechnology from Nanjing University. His research interests lie in the areas of banking, entrepreneurial finance, corporate finance and financial reporting. Song has published research papers in leading academic journals, such as the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, British Journal of Management, Journal of Business Research, and International Small Business Journal, among others. His research has captured the interest of the media platforms, including the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, the Oxford Business Law Blog (OBLB), the Phelan United States Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science and has been featured by OpenSecrets (merged from the Center for Responsive Politics and the National Institute on Money in Politics). Song has also authored a chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Entrepreneurial Finance, published by the Oxford University Press. Moreover, his work has successfully attracted funding from the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust. Song serves on the Editorial Board of the British Accounting Review and is a member of the Peer Review College of the British Academy of Management.

Dr Song Zhang has accumulated teaching experience in the areas of financial accounting, financial management, corporate finance, business valuation, financial investment, risk management, research methods, etc. He is the Interim Chair of the Business School Ethics Committee and served as the Undergraduate Admissions Officer for the School of Management. 

Song has supervised three PhD students to successful completion and has acted as an external doctoral examiner at the University of Reading. 

Song welcomes applications for PhD study.

Academic/Professional Qualification

PhD; MSc (Distinction); BSc

Profile Keywords

Entrepreneurial finance and banking; corporate finance; financial reporting

Education/Academic qualification

Doctor of Philosophy, Impacts of relationship banking and capital market concentration on small business finance, University of Surrey

Award Date: 30 Jun 2016

Keywords

  • HG Finance
  • Banking
  • Corporate Finance
  • Entrepreneurial Finance
  • Financial Reporting

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  1. SDG 15 - Life on Land
    SDG 15 Life on Land

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