Professor Duan is the chairman and a co-founder of Criat (https://www.criat.sg) and ADBIZA (https://adbiza.com). He serves as an adjunct chair professor at the National Chengchi University’s College of Global Banking and Finance in Taiwan and is also a professor emeritus of the National University of Singapore (NUS). Professor Duan received a PhD in Finance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and is an academician of Academia Sinica, a fellow of the Society for Financial Econometrics and an advisory board member of the International Association of Credit Portfolio Managers, among others. A world-renowned expert on derivatives pricing and credit risk analytics, Professor Duan once held the Jardine Cycle & Carriage Professorship and helmed the Asian Institute of Digital Finance and the Risk Management Institute at NUS. Prior to those, he was the Manulife Chair Professor at the University of Toronto and taught at the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology and McGill University. The GARCH option pricing model and the Credit Research Initiative, a public good undertaking in 2009-2023 via developing and maintaining a digital platform for assessing credit risks, stand out among Professor Duan’s many accomplishments.