Presenter:

Prof. Lin ZHANG, Associate Professor, City University of Hong Kong

Prof. Lin Zhang is an Associate Professor at City University of Hong Kong, the Lab Leader for Laboratory of Energy Economics and Environmental Management, the council member of the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE), the lead PI for NSFC/RGC Joint Research Grant and Germany/HK Joint Research Grant, and the editor of The Energy Journal. His research focuses on energy and sustainability economics, such as climate change, low-carbon transition, and sustainability. He has published over 70 papers at the top tier journals in the cross-disciplinary field of energy economics, sustainable development and policy studies. Prof. Zhang has been ranked among the world’s top 2% scientists in the released metrics compiled by Stanford University, the world top 5% economists (publications in the last 10 years) by RePEc, top scholar (top 0.5%) in social sciences by ScholarGPS. In 2024, Prof. Zhang has been selected as the SUSI Scholar (economics and sustainable development) by the U.S. Department of State. His work has been cited in policy papers of international organizations such as the WTO, EU, OCED, etc.

Presenter:

Prof. Shui-Yan TANG, Professor, Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California, USA

Shui-Yan Tang is Frances R. and John J. Duggan Professor in Public Administration and Chair of the Department of Public Policy and Management in the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California. He was elected as a Fellow of the US National Academy of Public Administration in 2009.

Prof. Tang’s research focuses on institutional analysis and design, common-pool resource governance, environmental politics and policy, collaborative governance, and governance reform. He has been published in numerous journals, including: Comparative Politics, Economic Development Quarterly, Environment and Planning A, Governance, Human Ecology, Harvard Business Review, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, land Economics, Public Administration Review, The China Quarterly, and World Development. Prof. Tang also served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory and International Public Administration Review.

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Germà Bel, Professor of Economics and Public Policy and Director of the Observatory of Public Policies Analysis and Evaluation at the University of Barcelona, Spain, is an editor of Local Government Studies. With a regional focus on Europe, Prof. Bel has academic interests in a wide range of public policy topics, including public sector reform, privatization & regulation, infrastructure and transportation, local public services, and environmental policy. He has published numerous articles in top academic journals in the related fields. Apart from his academic career, Prof. Bel served as advisor to the Spanish Ministers of Public Affairs and of Public Works and Transportation between 1990 and 1993 and was a member of the Spanish Parliament (2000-2004) and member of the Catalan Parliament (2015-2017).

Presenter:

Germà Bel, Professor of Economics and Public Policy and Director of the Observatory of Public Policies Analysis and Evaluation at the University of Barcelona, Spain, is an editor of Local Government Studies. With a regional focus on Europe, Prof. Bel has academic interests in a wide range of public policy topics, including public sector reform, privatization & regulation, infrastructure and transportation, local public services, and environmental policy. He has published numerous articles in top academic journals in the related fields. Apart from his academic career, Prof. Bel served as advisor to the Spanish Ministers of Public Affairs and of Public Works and Transportation between 1990 and 1993 and was a member of the Spanish Parliament (2000-2004) and member of the Catalan Parliament (2015-2017).