Energy, Environment & Climate Policy

Kejun Jiang

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China

Prof. Jiang is a Full Professor in the CNCC Thrust under the Society Hub of HKUST(GZ). Before joining the HKUST(GZ),  he was a Senior Researcher and former Director of the Energy Research Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission in China. Dr. Jiang was a lead author for the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report. His research interests include energy and emissions scenarios, energy and fuel tax assessment, and energy policy assessment. He received his Ph.D. in Social Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Arthur P.J. Mol

Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, Netherlands

Prof. Mol is Rector Magnificus and Vice-President of the Executive Board at Wageningen University & Research. His core research themes include globalization, social theory and environmental issues, ecological modernization, sustainable production and consumption, information-based management and urban environmental management. He conducts research on several continents.

Miranda Schreurs

Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Prof. Miranda Schreurs is Chair of Climate and Environmental Policy at the Munich School of Politics and Public Policy, Technical University of Munich. She investigates environmental movements, green politics, and climate policy making both comparatively and internationally. With Ph.D. from University of Michigan, she has lived and researched in Europe, the United States and Asia. In 2023 she received the Technical University of Munich’s Sustainability Award. She is co-chair elect of the German Committee to IIASA and a board member of the Regulatory Assistance Project as well as the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies. In 2011, Prof. Schreurs was appointed by Chancellor Angela Merkel as a member of the Ethics Committee for a Secure Energy Supply. In 2016, she was appointed by the German Bundestag as a member of a committee established to bring citizens’ voices and ensure greater transparency in the search for a disposal site for highly radioactive waste. She was a member of the German Council on the Environment (2008–2016) and served both as Vice Chair and Chair of the European Advisory Council on Environment and Sustainable Development.

Energy and Power System Techs & Engineering

Aoife M. Foley

The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

Professor Aoife Foley is Chair in Net Zero Infrastructure at the University of Manchester and leads the AVANTERN group. A recognised global leader in energy systems and sustainability, she brings nearly 30 years of experience in industry and academia. She has secured over £25M in research funding, ranks among the top 2% of scientists worldwide, with over 14,000 citations (h-index 55). From 2014 to 2023, she was Editor-in-Chief and Wind Editor of Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, guiding its impact factor from 5.9 to 16.3. Her research focuses on accelerating equitable, secure, and digitally enabled transitions to net-zero energy systems. Her work integrates power and energy systems engineering, hydrogen and energy storage technologies, transport decarbonisation, and climate-aligned infrastructure resilience. She holds a BEng in Civil Engineering, an MSc in Transport and Environmental Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Energy Engineering. A former MIT adjunct, she advises governments and industry on energy transitions, climate resilience, and policy. She has chaired or evaluated proposals for the EU, UKRI, Swiss National Science Foundation, Academy of Finland, and others.

Energy Storage

Yulong Ding 

University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

Prof. Ding is Professor and Founding Chair of the School of Chemical Engineering at University of Birmingham. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He is the founder of UoB Centre for Energy Storage, and currently leads the UoB thermal energy conversion and storage group, and industrial decarbonisation taskforce. He has published 550+ technical papers with 450+ in peer-reviewed journals and filed 100+ patents.

Renewables

Xiaojing Hao  

University of New South Wales, New South Wales, Australia

Prof. Hao is Professor of the School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering at the University of New South Wales. Her research focuses on low-cost, high-efficiency thin film solar cells and tandem solar cells, researching on various energy materials including Si and compound semiconductor materials. Prof Hao now leads a strong group in the above areas, achieving a number of efficiency records on emerging thin film solar cells. She was awarded 2020 Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science and 2021 Australian Academy of Science Pawsey Medal.

Muk Chen Ong 

University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway

Prof. Ong is Professor and Leader of Ocean Technology Innovation Cluster at the University of Stavanger. He is a Fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences. His research interests include marine technologies and offshore wind turbines.

Carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS)

Praveen Linga 

National University of Singapore, Singapore

Prof. Linga is Professor of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at National University of Singapore. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC). His research interests include gas hydrates, storage and transport of fuels, CCUS, seawater desalination, and recovery of energy. He is recognized among the World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds and Highly Cited Researcher in Engineering by Clarivate Analytics.

Net-Zero Building & Urban Planning

Zhenjiang Shen 

Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan/Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, China

Prof. Shen is Professor of the Division of Environmental Design at Kanazawa University in Japan, as well as Dean of the School of Urban and Rural Planning at Fuzhou University in China. He is a foreign Fellow of the Engineering Academy of Japan. His research interests include smart urban planning and construction that combines spatial planning, low-carbon construction, and smart technologies.

Nan Zhou

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA

Dr. Zhou is a Senior Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She has led many international programs at LBNL on energy efficiency and greenhouse gas mitigation, often focused on China. Dr. Zhou is currently the Technical Program Manager for the Net Zero World Action Center. Dr. Zhou’s expertise includes integrated energy system and emission modeling, energy efficiency for end use sectors in buildings, appliances, industry and transport; and on microgrids/distributed energy resources as well as low carbon/smart city development. 

Net-Zero Transportation

Chris Chunting Mi

San Diego State University, San Diego, USA

Prof. Mi is Distinguished Professor and Director of the GATE Center for Electric Drive Transportation at San Diego State University. He is a Fellow of the Society of Automobile Engineers (SAE). His research interests include electric and hybrid vehicles, wireless power transfer, and power electronics. He won the IEEE Power Electronics Emerging Technology Award (2019) and the IEEE Vehicle and Transportation Systems Technology Achievement Award (2023).

Computational Modeling

Markus Kraft

University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Prof. Kraft is Professor of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute. He also serves as the Director of the Singapore-Cambridge CREATE Research Centre. He has a strong interest in the area of computational modelling and optimization targeted towards developing carbon abatement and emissions reduction technologies for the automotive, power and chemical industries.

Low-carbon Materials

Aaron Moment 

University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA

Prof. Moment is Professor of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at UCLA. His research interests include applying advances in sensing, imaging, modeling, simulation, and materials to devise more reliable, efficient, safer processes for fine chemical, pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical products. Prof. Moment spent 16 years in the pharmaceutical industry as a chemical engineer at Merck & Co. and DuPont Pharmaceuticals before joining Columbia University and later UCLA. He was a member of the 2006 and 2010 USPA Presidential Green Chemistry award teams for improvements to manufacturing Sitagliptin (Januvia).

John N. Loughhead

University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

Prof. Loughhead is former President of the UK Institution of Engineering and Technology; fellow of the UK and Australian Academies of Engineering; Chair of the Mission Innovation Steering Committee; former Chief Scientific Adviser, UK Department of Energy and Climate Change, UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy; former Executive Director at the UK Energy Research Centre.

Massamba Thioye

UNFCCC secretariat, Bonn, Germany

Dr. Thioye is principal advisor on climate and sustainability innovation of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) secretariat. He previously led UN Climate Change Global Innovation Hub's activities promoting systemic innovations around the world. He is also Advisory Committee member of the European Green Digital Coalition and member of the Strategic Advisory Board of the “Net-Zero” initiative under ISO.

Xudong Jing

Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Prof. Xudong Jing is a senior energy expert with more than 30 years of international experience in technology innovation, field development and CO₂ geological storage (CCS/CCUS). Prior to joining Nanjing University, he has held leadership roles with major international and national energy companies including Shell and Abu Dhabi National Oil Company in optimizing hydrocarbon recovery while minimizing greenhouse gas emissions. Prior to his industry assignments, Dr. Jing worked as a reader in the Faculty of Engineering at Imperial College London where he is currently a visiting professor. Dr. Jing is a Fellow of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng), Fellow of the Energy Institute (FEI), Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and a Chartered Engineer (CEng). He is a Distinguished Member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE).

Xi Lu

Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Prof. Lu is Assistant to Dean of the Institute for Carbon Neutrality and Professor of the School of Environment at Tsinghua University. His research interests include renewable energy technology and impact assessment methods, and regional net-zero development pathways. He was a Lecturer and Research Associate at Harvard University before joining Tsinghua.