Key details
Dr Yuen Lo
Lecturer in Finance
Dr Yuen Lo is a Lecturer in Finance at Greenwich University. He is also a Research Fellow at the Centre for Sustainable Finance at SOAS, University of London. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).
Yuen joined University of Greenwich in 2026 after two years as a Lecturer in Economics at London Metropolitan University, where he acted as both a Programme Leader for BSc Economics and Finance and as a Module Leader. His research interests span digital finance, climate finance, and their intersection. He completed his PhD on blockchain economics at UCL in 2023, and has published articles on climate vulnerability, Bitcoin mining, ICO tokens and decentralised exchanges.
He has worked on a UN Environment grant focused on climate vulnerability and its impact on cost of debt, and on an EU Horizon 2020 grant on circular business models for cultural heritage. Prior to academia he worked in industry, including ten years in investment management for a FTSE 100 pension fund where he managed a multi-billion USD portfolio. During that time he achieved his CFA. He has also worked at an enterprise blockchain company and at an insurance brokerage. He is currently advisor to a start-up providing expertise on tokenomics and commercial operating models.
Responsibilities within the university
Yuen is Module leader for Investment Management (MSc) January cohort. Module teaching includes Financial Management; Financial Markets, Instruments and Institutions; and Management Accounting.
Research / Scholarly interests
Digital finance, climate finance, and their intersection
Key funded projects
“Accelerating the adoption of digital and tokenised sovereign bonds in emerging and developing economies to fund climate action and sustainable development” funded by the German development agency Deutschen Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Recent publications
Kling, G., Y. C. Lo, V. Murinde, and U. Volz. (2025) “Climate vulnerability and the cost of debt” Oxford Open Economics
Volz, U., Lo, Y. C., and Mishra, V. (2024) “Scaling Up Green Investment in the Global South: Strengthening Domestic Financial Resource Mobilisation and Attracting Patient International Capital”. London: SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance.
Joseph, D., Lo, Y. C., Pagani, A., Pan, L., and Skovorodov, V., (2022) “Ledger Comparative Analysis” In: Blockchain technology: advances in research and applications. Ed. by Porras, E. R., Nova Science Publishers
Lo, Y. C. and Medda, F. (2021). “Do DEXs work? Using Uniswap V2 to explore the effectiveness of decentralized exchanges” Journal of Financial Market Infrastructures
Lo, Y. C. and Medda, F. (2020). “Assets on the blockchain: An empirical study of Tokenomics” Information Economics and Policy, 53, p. 100881
Presentations
Lo, Y. C., and Volz, U., (2025) “Disasters and exchange rates” In: Risks and challenges for public debt management: inflation, markets and climate. Proceedings of the 3rd public debt management conference, Washington, D.C., October 3-4, 2024, p. 117-132. Rome: Public Debt Management Network