Zhang Xiliang is a Professor at the Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology, Tsinghua University; Director of the Institute of Energy, Environment and Economy, Tsinghua University; and Chief Scientist of the Climate Governance and Carbon Finance Center, Institute for Carbon Neutrality, Tsinghua University. He holds a PhD in Systems Engineering from Tsinghua University.
He is a member of the National Experts Panel on Climate Change, the President of the China Carbon Emissions Trading Association, and the Chair of the Energy Systems Engineering Committee, China Energy Research Society.
Since 2015, he has been heading the expert group of national carbon market design. He has served as the chief scientists of the key research projects on addressing climate change from the National Natural Sciences Foundation, the National Key R&D Program, and the National Social Sciences Foundation.
He has published more than 200 papers in Chinese and international academic journals, including Nature Energy, Nature Climate Change, and Management World. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of Energy and Climate Management and Editor-in-Chief of Carbon Market and Carbon Finance.
He was a Lead Author of the fourth and fifth IPCC Climate Change Assessment Reports. He was granted the First Prize for Humanity and Social Science Research by Ministry of Education in 2020.
His current research interests include Low-Carbon Energy Economy Transition, Climate Change Economics, and Climate Change Policy and Mechanism Design.
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Email：zhang_xl@tsinghua.edu.cn