Shawn Fan is the Head of Solutions and Research at Legal & General China, responsible for developing the company’s business of cross-board investment and pension asset management in China. Before transferring to the China team, Shawn had worked as a fixed income Portfolio Manager at LGIM America, a US affiliate of Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM). Before joining LGIM America, he was a director at Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group where he led a quantteam to do research on margin models and build up quantitative analytics. Prior to CME, he was a desk quant at UBS for Latin America’s emerging market structured product trading and interest rate derivative trading. Shawn also worked briefly in Bear Stearns/JPMorgan on risk management.

Dr. Fan is currently the chairman and board director of the Chinese American Financial Association (TCFA). Under his and his team's joint efforts, TCFA's global membership has increased from 8,000 to nearly 10,000 in two years, and it has also successfully held nearly 15 online and offline events during that time. The 2022 annual conference hosted by Dr. Fan attracted over 160,000 online and offline viewers in total.

Dr. Fan will begin a 7-month program at Harvard Business School's Senior Executive Leadership Program (SELP) in December of this year. Dr. Fan holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Master of Financial Mathematics from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. In 2022, he published an article entitled " A financial ecosystem for retirement and pension in an aging society" in the Tsinghua Financial Review, and translated the classic financial engineering textbook "Monte Carlo Methods in Financial Engineering," published in Chinese by Higher Education Press in 2013.