Distinguished Research Fellow

YANG Fuqiang

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Dr. Yang Fuqiang is Senior Advisor of Climate Change and Energy Transition Program (CCETP), Institute of Energy at Peking University. As an expert on climate change and energy, he has worked on China’s sustainable energy strategy and policy for more than 4 decades, and researched extensively on energy savings in building, industrial, and transportation sectors, low carbon cities, electricity and renewable energy, as well as climate change. Prior to joining CCETP, he was Senior Advisor on Energy, Environment and Climate Change at the Natural Resources Defense Council. Dr. Yang was the Director of Global Climate Solutions at WWF International Headquarter, and Vice President of Energy Foundation and Chief Representative of Energy Foundation Beijing Office. Before 2000, Dr. Yang worked with the State Planning Commission’s Energy Research Institute in China, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory In USA. Dr. Yang received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering at West Virginia University in the United States and his B.S. in Physics at Jilin University in China.