Gordon TAN is currently Assistant Professor at SUTD. As a financial geographer, his work focuses on examining the role of technological changes in shaping the nature of urban financial centres and financial work, how people acquire financial knowledge, and how their financial practices are shaped by new, emerging financial technologies through app-based platforms.

Besides researching on sustainability (green) finance, he is also interested in studying the networked flows of human capital among financial centres and their effect on urban and regional development, and how finance workers can adapt to an increasingly automated work environment. Part of his research interests focuses on the role of misinformation (“fake news”) in shaping societal attitudes towards a diverse range of issues, including immigration and foreign professionals, and financial knowledge and literacy.

As part of his ongoing research agenda that interrogates the intersections between finance, technology and society, Gordon is currently working on how new credit-payment forms like “buy-now-pay-later” (BNPL) and the greater use of fintech apps and social media platforms in personal finance are changing retail financial practices and monetary relations. He is also studying the application of novel technologies like blockchain in the greater financialization of the economy.