Ben Charoenwong
Associate Professor of Finance
INSEAD (mostly @Asia Campus)
Email: ben.charoenwong[at]insead.edu
Faculty Support Coordinator: Dora Tin
Email: dora.tin[at]insead.edu
Personal Assistant: Tim Calumba
Email: tim.j.calumba[at]gmail.com
Associate Professor of Finance
INSEAD (mostly @Asia Campus)
Email: ben.charoenwong[at]insead.edu
Faculty Support Coordinator: Dora Tin
Email: dora.tin[at]insead.edu
Personal Assistant: Tim Calumba
Email: tim.j.calumba[at]gmail.com
I am Ben Charoenwong, Associate Professor of Finance at INSEAD's Asia Campus. My research examines financial regulation, financial technology, and networks. I study investment-adviser regulation, regulatory technology, decentralized finance, and supply-chain networks. My work has appeared in the American Economic Review, Journal of Financial Economics, Science Advances, and Review of Finance.
Research and publications | Curriculum vitae | INSEAD faculty profile
Latest (July 2026):
My paper on the effectiveness of OFAC crypto wallet and entity blacklists has been accepted at the 2026 IEEE Blockchain Computing and Applications conference.
Next Latest Update (May 2026):
Was on a panel at Parameta Perspectives talking about real world tokenization.
Email: ben.charoenwong[at]insead.edu
Office: INSEAD Asia Campus #612B
If you are an undergraduate or graduate student looking for some research assistant work, please email Tim with your resume/CV and a brief email statement of your interests. Most of my research involve quantitative work and my programming language of choice is R, but I also have uses for students with no programming experience as well.
See these guides: Code and Data for the Social Sciences (research assistance tips), Google R style guide, Tidyverse R style guide, spreadsheet data organization guide, and Language-Agnostic Coding Advice for Economists.
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