Dr. Zhao Ding received his Ph.D. from the University of Kiel in Germany in 2018 with “Sehr Gut” honor and is currently a lecturer in the College of Economics, Sichuan Agricultural University. His research interests involve inclusive finance, behavior economics and finance, and value chain financing. Dr. Ding has been presiding over a number of research projects, including the National Social Science Fund Project of China - "Research on the Financing Mechanism and Risk Governance of the Agriculture-Food Industry Chain under the Digital Background", Sichuan Provincial Science and Technology Plan Project - "The Market-oriented Reform of Capital Factors Unleashes the Potential of Rural Industry Integration Development", the sub-project of the Global Challenge Research Fund (GCRF) of the University of Nottingham, UK - “Sichuan Cooperative Ecosystem Research”, etc.