Dr Zhang Jianlin is a passionate educator with more than 20 years of teaching and educational leadership experience at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Dr Zhang started his teaching career as a class teacher for Economics for Management at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Since then, he has taught a wide range of courses in the fields of economics, finance, and management to more than 10,000 students. Dr Zhang enjoys bringing life into the classroom and is particularly good at making abstract concepts concrete to students through innovative pedagogies such as classroom experiments.

Dr Zhang graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Management with First Class Honours from the University of London (top graduate worldwide), a Master of Science in Accounting and Finance from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (awarded the LSE External Scholarship, full scholarship) and a Doctor of Philosophy in Economics from the National University of Singapore (NUS) (awarded the NUS Research Scholarship, full scholarship).

Dr Zhang’s main research interest lies in the use of laboratory and field experiments to understand economic behaviours.

“Diminishing personal information privacy weakens image concerns” (with Yohanes E. Riyanto), Public Library of Science PLoS ONE, April 27, 2020.

“Putting a Price Tag on Others’ Perceptions of Us” (with Yohanes E. Riyanto), Experimental Economics, Volume 19, Issue 2, pages 480–499, June 2016.

“An Egalitarian System Breeds Generosity: The Impact of Redistribution Procedures on Pro-Social Behavior” (with Yohanes E. Riyanto), Economic Inquiry, Volume 52, Issue 3, pages 1027–1039, July 2014.

“The Impact of Social Comparison of Ability on Pro-Social Behavior” (with Yohanes E. Riyanto), Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Volume 47, December 2013, Pages 37–46.

• Behavioural economics