Srijith Kannan

Srijith Kannan is an Associate Professor I of Accounting at the Asia School of Business. His research examines how regulation, technology, and uncertainty alter information environments and shape the behavior of institutional investors, firms, and capital markets. His particular interests are in mutual funds, social media, fintech, and financial reporting.

 

His work has been published in the Journal of Accounting and Economics, one of the two leading journals in accounting research, and has received support from the Hong Kong Research Grants Council (HKRGC) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China. It has been presented at prominent academic conferences and institutions, including the American Accounting Association’s FARS Midyear Meeting, the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research (ABFER), Stanford University, the Singapore Accounting Symposium, the Conference on FinTech Advances in Emerging Markets, and the Tsinghua University Artificial Intelligence and Capital Market Research Conference.

 

Dr. Kannan earned his PhD in Accounting from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), where he was awarded the HKRGC PhD Fellowship. He also holds an MSc in Accounting (with a concentration in Analytics) from HKUST, and dual undergraduate degrees, a B.S. in Business Administration and a B.S. in Accounting, from the University of Southern California. He was a Visiting Scholar at Duke University in 2025.