Ting Zhang

Ting Zhang is an Associate Director of the Jacob France Institute, Assistant Professor of the Department of Finance and Economics, Merrick School of Business and a Faculty Fellow at Schaefer Center for Public Policy of University of Baltimore. Dr. Zhang’s research interests include entrepreneurship and aging, workforce development, education and labor, welfare-to-work, business and employment dynamics, and regional economy. She has been a Principal Investigator for many workforce related local, state and national projects and brought in numerous research grants each year in recent years. Dr. Zhang is a published author of multiple books and a number of academic journal articles. She is a referee for multiple renowned academic journals. Her book Elderly Entrepreneurship in an Aging Economy: It's Never Too Late was favorably reviewed by The Gerontologist. Dr. Zhang recently in 2015 won again a prestigious research grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to conduct research on boomer entrepreneurship. In the summer of 2015, she was invited by the University of Lisbon to give a keynote speech on later life entrepreneurship. In 2013, she gave an invited speech at the National Press Club. Dr. Zhang’s research was quoted by Time magazine, the Bloomberg Businessweek, Newswise, the Baltimore Sun, and the Baltimore Business Journal, and she was interviewed by the NPR-WEAA station. She was previously a winner of the national Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship Award, finalist title in the international Charles Tiebout Prize for Regional Science, US Department of Labor Employment & Training Administration Research Fellowship Award, Public Policy Paper Competition by Virginia Department of Transportation, and several other research awards. Before joining University of Baltimore, she conducted research at George Mason University, the World Bank, the Urban Institute, and the Council of Graduate Schools, and taught at UMBC.