Wang Yao

Wang Yao is a Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor. She currently serves as:

• Director General of the International Institute of Green Finance at the Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE).
• Director of the Dual Carbon and Finance Research Center,CUFE.
• Researcher at the Institute of Finance and Economics and the Beijing Finance Research Base.
• Visiting Scholar at the Economic Transformation Centre of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

She also holds the following positions:

• Deputy Secretary-General of the Green Finance Committee at China Society for Finance and Banking
• Advisor to the Green Development Committee of Securities Association of China
• Sustainable Finance Advisor to Monetary Authority of Singapore

Background

Wang Yao’s previous roles include:

• Researcher at Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, University of Cambridge
• Expert on the Advisory Committee of Sustainable Finance Programme at Smith School of Enterprise and Environment, University of Oxford
• Consultant to Luxembourg Stock Exchange
• Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University’s Department of Economics ,Visiting Scholar for Harvard Environmental Economics Program and Harvard China Project (2010-2011)
• Postdoctoral Researcher at Bank of Beijing (2008-2010)

Research interests

• green economy
• sustainable finance
• green finance
• climate finance