He received his PhD from Washington University in St. Louis, MSc from National University of Singapore, and BSE from Tsinghua University. His research interests include banking and financial crises, executive compensation and corporate governance, and corporate finance. His research has appeared in The Economic Journal , Journal of Finance , Review of Financial Studies , Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis , World Bank Economic Review , and Journal of Risk , and has also been covered in VoxEU, World Bank Chief Economist's Blog, and Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation . Besides research, Fenghua enjoys music, movies, nature, and spending time with his family.