Senior Policy Fellow at LSE's Grantham Research Institute working on the political economy of financing a green transition in China and across the global South
As a Senior Policy Fellow at LSE’s Grantham Research Institute for Climate Change & the Environment, I lead the Institute’s work on China. I conduct policy-relevant academic research with a focus on engaging with policymakers in China to advance the country’s green transition, as well as on assisting policymakers in other countries in dealing with China’s role in a global green transition.
I’m a political economist. Geographically, my work focuses on China and other countries outside the global North, such as, in particular, Vietnam, India, Ethiopia, and Brazil. Topically, my work focuses on the role of the state in ensuring financing for a green transition, covering central banking, fiscal policy, development finance, and other tools related to industrial policy. I explore how China challenges common assumptions regarding the political and economic conditions required to use the state as a driver for green transition. I examine how interventionist state approaches are feasible in the global South, under different political preconditions, by using different policy tools, and while facing different challenges.
I hold a double PhD in international political economy from Copenhagen Business School and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. I also hold a double Master’s degree in international business and politics from Copenhagen Business School and Rotterdam School of Management, as well as a double Master’s degree in international development from Sciences Po Paris and Peking University. I previously worked as a Postdoc at Brown University, at China’s leading think tank on green finance (the International Institute of Green Finance), as well as at the UN in New York, Bangkok, and Nairobi. My research has been published as more than 20 articles in leading academic journals in addition to numerous policy reports. I’m putting the last touches on my book manuscript, titled: “An End to Ultimatums: How the Global South Can (and Will) Finance its Own Green Transition”
