Dr. Guanming He is a Professor at Durham University, where he currently serves as Director of Internationalization and Library Representative for the department and the business school. His research has been published in a host of leading international journals (FT50/ABS 4-3) and featured in numerous mainstream media and press releases. He serves as an ad hoc reviewer for a wide range of internationally reputable accounting, finance, management, and economics journals (FT50/ABS 4-3) as well as books published by Cengage, Pearson, and SAGE. Thus far, he has performed hundreds of paper reviews for various top-tier and second-tier international journals, and received multiple reviewer awards. He currently serves on the editorial board of Advances in Accounting, a U.S.-based accounting journal. He presented his papers at the American Accounting Association annual meeting in 2009, 2010, 2012-2016, as well as at other major accounting conferences including AAA Financial Accounting and Reporting Section mid-year meeting. He also presented his research at an array of major economics and finance conferences, including the American Economic Association annual meeting, Royal Economic Society annual conference, European meeting of the Econometric Society, and China International Conference in Finance (CICF), among others. He received best paper awards at the UK Academy of Information Systems 2025 annual conference, 3rd Australian Financial Market & Corporate Governance conference, 5th Research Symposium on Finance and Economics, 7th Indonesian Finance Association International Conference, and 24th & 26th International Business Research conference, attained a top paper award at the 28th annual Global Finance conference as well as a Best-in-Track paper award at the 35th annual meeting of the Academy of Finance, and was nominated as a finalist for the best overall conference paper award of European Financial Management Association.