Jian Yang is the J.P. Morgan endowed chair and Research Director at the J.P. Morgan Center for Commodities as well as the discipline director of finance at University of Colorado Denver. Yang is recognized as one of most prolific authors in finance during past 50 years based on core finance journal publications, and one of 15 commodities-friendly professors in the world. In addition to his research in finance that is featured by New York Times, Reuters, The Washington Post and CNBC, and over 40 medial outlets in total, Yang’s research on commodities has been cited in policy publications by World Bank, International Monetary Fund, World Trade Organization, OECD, and presented by invitation to government agencies and major commodity exchanges, including US EIA, China Futures Association, and Shanghai Futures Exchange, among others.
Yang’s expertise on commodities attracts extensive media attention. His media articles (about 120) feature JPMCC in several dozen countries in multiple languages, including prominent English media outlets such as Reuters, Financial Times, Bloomberg, Forbes, World Finance magazine (U.K.), China Daily (global and U.S. editions, its European Weekly in the U.K. and African Weekly in Kenya), Australian Financial Review, and RT (the Russian international television network). The media articles are also published in major Chinese-language media outlets: Economic Daily, China National Radio, and China Securities Journal, with some of them posted on the official websites of the Chinese Central Government and its national government agencies.