Dr. YANG Xiu is the associate senior researcher and research director at Institute of Climate Change and Sustainable Development (ICCSD) at Tsinghua University. From 2012 to 2020, she worked for China’s National Center for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation where she was appointed the Director of Policy and Regulation and senior researcher. She received her bachelors and Ph.D. from Tsinghua University, received her Ph.D in Engineering in 2010 January.

Dr. Yang is a member of the review expert team (RETs) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and the main author of the fourth national climate change assessment report has long been engaged in research on energy economics, energy and environmental policies, and analysis of climate change related strategies and policies. She has led and participated in a number of key research projects in the field of energy and climate change policy, including legislations to address climate change, total greenhouse gas emission control system, low carbon city indicator system, energy revolution and climate change, and pilot assessment of low carbon provinces and cities.