Jie Gong

Jie Gong is an associate professor of management and strategy at the University of Hong Kong. Prior to HKU, she taught at National University of Singapore, where she won the NUS Business School teaching excellence award.

Gong’s main research area lies at the intersection of organizational economics, personnel economics, and labor economics. It focuses on human-capital accumulation and explores how firms can design organizations and operations to better manage their talents. Recently, she has studied topics on automation and human-machine complementarity.

She earned her BA in mathematical logic and economics from Peking University and PhD in managerial economics from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.