WANG Tao 王韬 Assistant Director, Yicai Research Institute; Nonresident Scholar, Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy
Dr. Tao Wang has been the Assistant Director of CBNRI since January 2016, heading the Institute’s energy research program and Beijing office. Dr. Wang along with his team seeks to provide independent, objective, and insightful suggestions to China’s historic transition in economy and energy what is unfolding now. Prior to joining CBNRI, Dr. Wang has been a resident scholar from 2012 to 2015 at Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, where he led the research on China’s unconventional oil and gas policies and the environmental implications. Before that, from 2009 to 2011, he worked at the Climate and Energy Program of WWF China and headed projects related to climate negotiation progress, emission and energy scenario analysis, as well as major business projects of low carbon innovation in start-ups. From 2006 to 2009, as a research fellow at both Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and Sussex Energy Group at University of Sussex in the UK, he worked with colleagues from 6 other university partners on scenario analysis of China’s future energy transition.