Melissa Brown Goodall is the Senior Director of Environmental Innovations Initiative. She is developing a strategic vision to leverage Penn’s academic strengths and foster collaboration across disciplines to address the most pressing global environmental challenges: biodiversity, climate change and societal resilience. Before coming to Penn, Melissa was at Yale University – first with the School of the Environment, then with the Center for Environmental Law and Policy, and finally with the Office of Sustainability. Melissa is the Director of the Global University Climate Forum and a Strategic Advisor to the Center for Governance and Sustainability at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She earned her Ph.D. in Environmental Studies in 2015 and a joint degree in Resource Management and Administration in 1998 from Antioch University and her B.F.A. in Acting from New York University in 1992.

Jiang Nanqing, PhD in Ecology,graduated from Beijing Normal University. She did her research in the Netherlands, Japan, Israel and Kenya as Postdoc and research scientist. She has the expertise in environment and sustainable development. She was the senior programme officer of INBAR from 2007-2008, and worked at UNEP China Office from 2008-2018.

Rachel Bezner Kerr is a Professor of Global Development at Cornell University with a background in sociology, environmental science, and international development. Her research, writing, and teaching focus on food systems, agriculture, and sustainable development in Africa. She conducts long-term research in Malawi and Tanzania, collaborating with smallholder farmers, NGOs, and government agencies to develop and evaluate sustainable agriculture interventions, using participatory research methods to test the impacts of agroecological approaches on livelihoods, nutrition, and sustainable land management for rural communities.

Dr.Xu has been involved in energy, carbon neutrality and climate change research for a long time, paying close attention to global energy research as well as development investment analysis, energy efficiency evaluation and carbon emissions accounting. In addition, his related articles have been published in Nature Energy and other affiliated journals. He has also been responsible for a number of international, ministerial, provincial and municipal projects. He was guest speaker at COP26, head observer at COP27, and guest speaker at the UN Conference on Energy.

Henry Hu is a Strategic Finance leader driving growth, innovation and sustainability. He brings 25+ years of experience with IBM, 1010Data, and A.T. Kearney.

Gernot Wagner is a climate economist. His research, writing, and teaching focus on climate risks on the one hand and climate policy on the other.

In 2019, He published in the Proceedings of the 2019 Annual Conference of the Environmental Management Professional Committee of the China Management Sciences Society "Urban Planning under the Impact of Water Environment Based on the Optimization Framework of Utility Maximization-Problem Proposition, Enlightenment and Methods: Some Points from Frequent Floods in Houston."​​

Dr. Zhao has won the winning prize of “China Innovation Challenge Competition”, “the Golden Bridge Award of China Technology Market Association”, and the “Best Researcher Award” of NESIN International Academic. He has presided over/participated in more than 20 projects supported by National Natural Science Foundation, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the State Administration of Foreign Affairs, the United Nations Fund, the World Bank and so forth. He has delivered 3 conference reports both domestically and internationally; and has engaged in 10 enterprise scientific and technological services.

Improved climate change resilience of Msmes based on a systems thinking approach The impact of public participation in urban water resources Management on operation and maintenance of sponge city from the perspective of social capital Improvement of rural human settlement environment based on participatory research method

Giulio M. Gallarotti is Professor of Government at Wesleyan University and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. He has also been a Visiting Professor in the Department of Economic Theory at the University of Rome (1994). He has published numerous articles in leading journals across five disciplines: economics, politics, law, history, and business.

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He is qualified to practice fund management since 1993. With 30 years of experience in the whole industry chain such as clean energy project development consulting, financing investment, engineering design, heat pump product production, engineering construction, energy project operation, etc.

​In two decades, inaugurated China offices for three international civil society organizations: Social Accountability International, Solidaridad Network and Sustainable Agriculture Initiative.

Academic and professional research in environmental economics and related issues. In environmental economics, he has written several working papers on applied microeconomics for empirical analysis of Chinese environmental policies. Specific research projects include ESG-related topics such as the analysis of the relationship between trade liberalization and China's manufacturing pollution emissions, and the political economy impact of provincial political cycle on manufacturing pollution emission cycle in China.