Biography of speakers(The sequence is based on the appearance in the agenda)

Opening Remarks
Last Name

Tsujinaka

First NameInstitution

Tokai UniversityCountryJapanYutaka

Short BioYutaka Tsujinaka is a Vice Chancellor for Art and Humanities at Tokai University
and an emeritus of University of Tsukuba. Dr. Tsujinaka holds doctor of law degree(political science) from Kyoto University, in addition to master from Osaka
University. He was the president (2014-2016) of the Japanese Political Science
Association and the Director of the Project, “Comparative Empirical and Public
Policy Study on Civil Society and Urban Governance between Japan and Asia”
started in 2020. He has been conducting comprehensive surveys on civil society
organizations in 15 countries and accumulating data from 63,000 associations
since 1997.

Host and Moderator
Last Name

TaghizadehHesaryFirst NameInstitution

Tokai UniversityCountryJapan

FarhadShort Bio
Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary is a faculty member at the Social Science Research Institute of
Tokai University in Japan. He is a grantee of the Excellent Young Researcher (LEADER) statusfrom the Ministry of Education of Japan (MEXT). Currently, he is serving as Associate Editor/
Board member of several prestigious journals including Singapore Economic Review (SSCI),
Global Finance Journal (ABDC: A); Energy Efficiency (SSCI, SCIE) and Editor of the Cogent
Business and Management (Scopus). He has guest-edited special issues for prestigious
journals including Energy Policy, Energy Economics, Journal of Environmental Management,Finance Research Letters and Economic Analysis and Policy. His research credits include
authoring more than 130 academic journal papers and book chapters and the editing often books published by Springer Nature, Routledge, World Scientific and Asian DevelopmentBank Institute. He obtained a PhD in economics from Keio University, Japan in 2015 with ascholarship from the government of Japan (MEXT).

Welcoming Remarks
Speaker
Last NameZhang

First Name

DayongInstitution

Southwestern University of Finance andEconomics

Country

People’s Republic of China

Short BioDayong Zhang is a Professor of Financial Economics at Southwestern University ofFinance and Economics, China. His research interests include climate finance,energy finance, and general economic and financial issues in emerging
economies. He is the co-founder of the China Energy Finance Network and thepresident of Society for the Studies of Climate Finance (SSCF). He is the associate
editor of International Review of Financial Analysis, International Review ofEconomics and Finance, and Finance Research Letters; and also served as guest
editor for special issues in Energy Economics, Energy Policy, Emerging Markets
Finance and Trade etc.

Speaker
Last Name

Honma

First Name

Institution

Tokai UniversityCountryJapan

SatoshiShort Bio
Satoshi Honma is Professor (2014/4-) at the School of Political Science andEconomics, Tokai University. Before joining the Tokai University in 2014, he hastaught full-time at Kyushu Sangyo University (2003/4-2014/3). Dr. Honma receiveda B.S. degree (1995/3) and a Ph.D. degree (2005/3) in economics from Chuo
University in Japan. His research interests include environmental economics,energy economics, and sustainable development. Up to January 2021, Dr. Honma
published 22 referred papers in academic journals. His publications show up
major journals such as Applied Energy, Energy, Energy Policy, Journal of Clear
Production, Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, etc.

Speaker
Last Name

Wang

First Name

XiaoboInstitution

Hydrogen Energy Technology Center

Country

People’s Republic of China
Short Bio

Xiaobo Wang is a senior engineer and Director of Hydrogen Energy Technology
Center in Guangdong Electric Power Design and Research Institute. He is also anexpert and energy consultant of Asian Development Bank (ADB). His interests are
renewable energy power generation, fuel cell, nuclear power generation, energy
storage, carbon dioxide capture, utilization and storage (CCUS). He has conducted
and joined several projects for the Ministry of Science and Technology, theNational Key Research and Development Program, and national-leveldemonstrations.

Speaker
Last Name

ShiFirst Name

Xunpeng(Roc)

Institution

University of Technology Sydney

Country

Australia
Short Bio

Xunpeng (Roc) Shi is Principal Research Fellow at the Australia-China Relations InstituteUniversity of Technology Sydney. He is the Committee President for the International
Society for Energy Transition Studies (ISETS), a Council Member and past President(2016-2018) of the “Chinese Economics Society Australia” (CESA) and Dean & Chief
Economist of the Australian Energy Transition Institute. In 2020, The Australian named
him as the Top 250 Researchers in Australia and the field leader in Environmental Lawand Policy. He serves as an editorial role in many journals including Applied Energy,
Energy Strategy Review, and Frontiers in Energy Research.

Speaker
Last NameJiFirst Name

Qiang

Institution

Institute of Science and Development,
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)CountryPeople’s Republic of China
Short BioQiang Ji is an associate professor in Institute of Science and Development,
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). His research interest covers broad areas ofbig data and energy finance, energy economics and energy strategy
management, forecast modelling and risk management and financial
econometrics. He has published more than 150 articles in peer-reviewed
journals. He is the principal investigator of over ten grants from the National
Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and CAS. He serves as senior
editor, associate editor and subject editor for Finance Research Letters,International Review of Financial Analysis, International Review of Economics
and Finance. He is the co-founder of China Energy Finance Network.

DiscussantLast Name

YaoFirst NameInstitutionTianjin University

Country

People’s Republic of ChinaShouyu

Short Bio
Shouyu Yao currently works as a Research Fellow at Financial Engineering
Research Center, Tianjin University. Shouyu does research mainly in Financial
Markets. His most recent publication is in Pacific-Basin Finance Journal,
Accounting & Finance, Finance Research Letters，Economic Modelling, etc. He
also serves as the reviewer for some famous international journals, such as
Corporate Governance: An International Review, Annals of Operations Research,Economic Modelling, Research in International Business and Finance, etc.

Speaker
Last Name

ChangFirst Name

Youngho

Institution

Singapore University of Social Sciences

CountrySingapore
Short Bio

Youngho Chang is an Associate Professor at School of Business, Singapore
University of Social Sciences in Singapore. He specializes in the economics ofclimate change, energy and security, oil and economy, and the economics ofelectricity market. He received his Ph.D. in Economics (Environmental andResource Economics) from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, U.S.A.

Speaker
Last Name

SunFirst NameHuaping

Institution

Jiangsu University

Country

People’s Republic of China
Short Bio

Sun Huaping is a Professor, Doctoral Supervisor at the School of Finance andEconomics, Jiangsu University, China. His research interests include Global Value
Chains and International Trade, Sustainable Development and Environmental
Economics, and the regional economy. Previously, He worked as a visiting scholarfrom 2017.9-2017.12 at Nanyang Technological University, where he was involvedin empirical research analysis of the energy policy and energy system. He also
worked as a visiting scholar from 2015.3 - 2016.3 at the University of Nevada,Reno, where he was involved in empirical research analysis of regional economics
and Sustainable Development. He also worked as a Post doctor at 2016.6-2019.6,in Shanghai Jiao Tong University in Low-carbon economics. He holds a Ph.D. fromZhejiang University and a Masters and Bachelor from Qingdao University.

Speaker
Last Name

LiFirst Name

Yanfei

Institution

Hunan University of Technology and BusinessCountry

People’s Republic of China
Short Bio

Dr. Yanfei Li is an Associate Professor with Hunan University of Technology and Business. He is also
currently a Research Fellow with the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), aninternational economic policy think tank. He specializes in energy markets, energy policy, andeconomics of technological change, serving the interests of both academic and public sectors. Dr Li’s
current research covers regional natural gas trade and market integration, regional power
infrastructure planning and electricity trade, economic and environmental assessment of energy
technologies, hydrogen economy, and energy-economy-environment modelling. His academic
research appears in top energy and economics journals such as Energy Economics, Energy Policy, andTechnological Forecasting and Social Changes. He also contributes opinion articles to public media
such as South China Morning Post, the Diplomat, China Daily, the Nikkei Asian Review, and theASEAN Post. He acquired Ph.D. in Economics from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore
and Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Peking University in Beijing.

Speaker
Last Name

XieFirst Name

Bai-ChenInstitution

Tianjin University

Country

People’s Republic of China
Short Bio

Bai-Chen Xie is a Professor in Energy Economics and Operation Research at Tianjin
University, China. His research focuses on energy economics, environmental efficiency,mechanism design of renewable energy, and energy development plan. He supervised morethan 20 research projects, including the programmes sponsored by National Science
Foundation of China, major projects of the National Social Science Fund, Energy Group ofAsia-Pacific Economic Cooperation and State Grid of Corporation of China. He has chaired
several Energy development plan for Tianjin and Qinghai Province. Professor Bai-Chen Xie
has published more than 70 papers in refereed academic journals, including Energy
Economics, European Journal of Operation Research, OMEGA: the international journal ofmanagement science, Energy Policy, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews and manyother journals. He won several awards, including the social science excellent research ofTianjin, and received an invitation to compete for the Eni Award in 2016.

DiscussantLast Name

Zhao

First Name

Linhai

Institution

Huaqiao University

Country

People’s Republic of China
Short Bio

Linhai Zhao currently works as the Vice Director of China Center for
Macroeconomic Research (jointly sponsored by Huaqiao University and National
Academy of Economic Strategy, CASS). Linhai got his Ph.D. from Tianjin University.
His research field is Financial Risk Management and Monetary Economics. His
most recent published papers are in Computational Economics, Finance & TradeEconomics, etc. He has published four books: Monetary Policy and ViabilityTheory, Inflation Expectations and Their Heterogeneity, Housing MarketCorrection and Financial Risks, Transformation and Upgrading of Labor-Intensive
Industries, and Sustained Competitive Advantages.

DiscussantLast Name

ChengFirst Name

Institution

Tianjin University

Country

People’s Republic of China

Feiyang

Short Bio
Feiyang Cheng currently works at the College of Management and Economics(COME), Tianjin University. Feiyang does research in Behavioral Finance,
Corporate Finance, and Business Ethics recently. His most recent publication is inAccounting & Finance, Finance Research Letters, Economic Modelling, etc. He also
serves as the reviewer for some famous international journals, such as Annuals ofOperations Research, European Accounting Review, Economic Modelling,
Research in International Business and Finance, International Review ofEconomics and Finance, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, etc.