Haoxiang Zhu

Haoxiang Zhu became the Director of the SEC’s Division of Trading and Markets in December 2021.

Mr. Zhu is the Gordon Y. Billard Professor of Management and Finance and Associate Professor of Finance at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management. He also has served as a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Finance Department Editor at Management Science, and Associate Editor at the Journal of Finance.

He previously served as an academic expert for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Bank for International Settlements, and was a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago’s Working Group on Financial Markets.

Mr. Zhu earned a B.A. in mathematics and computer science from the University of Oxford and a Ph.D. in finance from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.