Supervision

Main/Co-Supervisor or Thesis Committee Member

• Cecilia PRICHARD-JONES, PhD candidate, Department of Geography, Durham University, “Socio-technical assemblages and their impact on socio-cultural and relational networks in M&A workplaces” (2025-present)
• Owen RILEY, PhD candidate, Department of Geography, Durham University, “A Financialised Electorate? Exploring How Popular Investment Culture Shapes Political Subjectivities” (2024-present)
• Fauziah Rizki YUNIARTI, PhD candidate, Department of Geography, Durham University & Durham University Business School, “The Financial Geography of Sustainable Development Finance” (2023-present)
• Qingren CHEN, PhD candidate, Department of Geography, Durham University, “The Evolution of Logistics Networks: A Study of the Sichuan-Chongqing Steel Industry” (2021-2025)
• Jing CHU, part-time PhD candidate, Department of Geography, Durham University, “The economic geography of central bank digital currencies: Money and the state” (2020-present)
• Cecilia PRICHARD-JONES, part-time MRes candidate, Department of Geography, Durham University, “Screens, the M&A Sector and Covid: Reimagining Financial Workplaces, Assemblages and Networks” (part-time; 2021-2025) 
• Cheng FANG, PhD candidate, Department of Geography, Durham University, “Understanding Chinese companies’ overseas stock market listings: Global financial networks and multi-scalar states” (2020-2024)
• Xiaoxi ZHU, MRes candidate, Department of Geography, Durham University, “Open banking and changing relationships between the Chinese banks and FinTech providers” (2021-2023)
• Felicia LIU, PhD candidate, Department of Geography, King’s College London and NUS Joint Degree Programme, “The emergence of climate finance markets in Asia: Instruments, actors and processes” (2017-2020)
• Diane Floreal BOULEAU, PhD candidate,Department of Geography, National University of Singapore (NUS), “Entrepreneurs without borders? Embeddedness and relationality in international entrepreneurial migration” (2017-2020)
• TAN Xuan Kai, PhD candidate, Department of Geography, NUS, “From national cable lines to global networks: Strategic coupling and evolving state-firm dynamics in Singapore’s telecommunications industry” (2016-2020)
• Dennis STOLZ, PhD candidate, Department of Geography, NUS, “Philanthro-capitalism and the production of space: Impact investing and global development in the era of financialisation” (2015-2019)
• Jack HARRIS, PhD candidate, Department of Geography, NUS, “Institutional configurations and the evolution of the London and Singapore DigiTech clusters” (2015-2019)
• Yvonne GUO, PhD candidate, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS, “Midshore financial centres and the emerging transparency regime” (2014-2017)
• LIM Cia Lit Guanie, PhD candidate, Department of Geography, NUS, “Chains, Values, and Security: The Political Economy of Aquaculture in Singapore” (2013-2016)

Examinations 

• Xinquan WU, PhD, 2025, Department of Geography, Durham University, “Making Carbon Markets in China’s Cities”
• William BRATTON, DPhil, 2025, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, “The Geographies of Financial Information and Knowledge: A Study of Sell-side Equity Research”
• Zhenfa LI, PhD, 2024, The Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, “State-led (de-)financialisation of the city: Local government bonds in China”
• Paolo BALMAS, PhD, 2022, Department of Urban Development and Mobility, University of Luxembourg. Thesis title: “China’s Financial Spaces in Europe: Bank Networks, Currency, Investments”
• CHEN Mengyao, PhD, 2017, Department of Geography, King’s College London. Thesis title: “The location patterns of Transnational Corporations’ Host-country Headquarters in Chinese mainland global cities”
• CHUANG May Tiffany Jordan, M.Soc.Sci, 2014, Department of Sociology, NUS. Thesis title: “Contextualising ‘Financial Literacy’ — Singapore as an Exploratory Case Study”
• WOO Jun Jue, PhD, 2014, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS. Thesis title: “Converging Interests, Emerging Diversity: A Nested Instrumental Approach to Financial Policy in Hong Kong, Singapore and Shanghai”
• LIU Yi, PhD, 2012, Department of Geography, NUS. Thesis title: “Global production networks, strategic coupling and dynamics of industrial upgrading in the Pearl River Delta, China”
• NG Li Na, M.Soc.Sci, 2010, Department of Geography, NUS. Thesis title: “Financialisation of oil: a geographical perspective on oil trading and production”