ZHANG Shangchen is an undergraduate student in Global Environment Program of Tsinghua University. With interests and knowledge in fields of environmental science and engineering, he has gained a holistic understanding in the cooperation mechanism in technological transfers for climate change and biennial communication on environment funds. He's interested in exploring elements and possibilities of mutual understanding and cooperation for bilateral or multilateral governance structures. As a Chinese millenniel with international vision, he strives to reduce barriers, enhance mutual understanding among world youth through innovation, with an impact on future generations and their environment.

Joel Christoph is a French master’s degree student in the Global Politics and Economics dual degree program of Tsinghua University and Johns Hopkins University SAIS. Through conference participation, extracurricular activities and personal studies, he has developed indepth understanding of international complexities in multilateral public goods management and policy coordination. At the fourth annual Model Climate Change Conference of Parties held at Tsinghua University, he was recognized as one of the two outstanding delegates out of 150 students during the multi-day negotiations on climate finance. His interests lie in global governance, environmental economics and energy transitions. He has previously worked in research on long-term global energy demand.

WANG Xiaoyu received her bachelor’s degree in Economics from the School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University in 2017. She continued to work as a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, where she is focusing on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. She is currently the Vice President of Graduate Student Union of Tsinghua University. She had previously served as Vice Minister of the Organization Department of the Communist Youth League Committee of Tsinghua University, Deputy Director of the Science and Innovation Center of the Communist Youth League Committee of Tsinghua University, and Vice President of the Undergraduate Student Union of Tsinghua University. She had received the First-class Scholarship of Tsinghua University, Academic Excellence Scholarship of Tsinghua University, Mitsubishi International Business Scholarship, Outstanding Student Leadership of Tsinghua University, and Outstanding Student of the School of Economics and Management.

Courtnae R. M. Bailey, a PhD researcher conducting research on climate change adaptation financing. Her research focuses on increasing private investment in adaptation in Caribbean Small Island States. She also explores the relationship between the Sustainable Development Goals and Climate change adaptation as a way to attract private investment.

Jessie Yuill, from a small coastal town in South Africa where she grew up in a loving home with her grandparents and sister. She has always had a tenacious curiosity when it comes to the environment and as a result, she has taken up many outdoor sports throughout her life such as kitesurfing, wakeboarding, scuba diving and rock climbing. She was brought up to respect and love nature and have been privileged enough to pursue this love in her degree, Biodiversity and Ecology at Stellenbosch University. This foundation has fed her passion for pursuing ways of ensuring ecosystem resilience and sustainability in the face of the predicted effects of climate change. Within this, she believes that public awareness and education play a key role in conserving biodiversity across the globe, and as such, she has a strong zeal for the involvement of people with her projects. Additionally, in her spare time she enjoys keeping up to date in other fields of research such as nutritional health and for the moment her hobbies include tennis, flute, reading and surfing.

Her research spans global environmental governance, environmental policy and economics to comparative/international political economy. Her current PhD research is on “role formation”, “role distribution” and “role fragmentation” in international environmental policy-making. Its main focus is to establish the role model to measure and predict the changing roles between state actors in climate change negotiation and within each actors’ policy-making processes. It explains the factors that cause the transition of roles and how such dynamic affect and interact with the issue of compliance in climate agreements. She also works on research topics such as: Global value chain and the trade and environment nexus; Embedded market power and global environmental governance; Policy space with a new green dilemma: tracing renewable energy development in emerging market economies. Qinyi is the recipient of the Cambridge Trust scholarship for her PhD studies. She holds an MPhil in Environmental policy from the University of Cambridge. Prior to that, she obtained her B.A. in Politics and Public Administration (with B.A. Management-Leo KoGuan Scholar; Xinhe Scholar) at the School of Government, Peking University.