Prof. Yang Zili, SUNY at Binghamton, Visits Energy and Environmental Policy Research Center
2011-06-24
June 15, invited by Dean Professor Wei Yiming, Professor Yang Zili, SUNY at Binghamton visited the School and the BIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research. He made a speech entitled "Balancing contemporary fairness and historical justice: A 'quasi-equitable' proposal for GHG mitigations". Associate Dean Professor Wang Zhaohua presided over the meeting.
Speaker Profile:
Professor Yang Zili, Ph.D. in economics from Yale University (1993), now Professor of Economics at the SUNY Binghamton campus. Worked in Tsinghua University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Pennsylvania State University. Mainly engaged in resource and environmental economics, energy economics, economic modeling, application of game theory, Chinese economic research. Completed a number of research projects funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. With collaboration with Prof. William Nordhaus, developed the world's leading inter-regional economic integration climate model (RICE). Published nearly 20 papers in prestigious journals including the American Economic Review. Papers have been cited more than 200 times (SSCI). Won the 1997 Energy Journal Best Paper Award. National Science Foundation, IPCC report reviewer.
