Dr. FANG Li is Chief Representative of WRI (USA) Beijing Representative Office. WRI’s mission WRI’s mission is to move human society to live in ways that protect Earth’s environment and its capacity to provide for the needs and aspirations of current and future generations.
Prior joining WRI, Dr. Fang was the Deputy Director General of Foreign Economic Cooperation Office of the Chinese Ministry of Ecology and Environment, where she led diverse multidisciplinary teams working on a wide range of environmental issues, such as Biodiversity and Minamata Conventions, environmental performance evaluation, environmental and climate finance, etc. She also served as the Assistant Secretary General of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED), a unique high-level think tank that brings together top Chinese and foreign experts and provides research and policy recommendations to the Chinese government. There she was responsible for developing strategy and research frameworks, mobilizing resources, and coordinating the joint activities of participating countries, international organizations, NGOs and governmental agencies. She established the Environmental Financial Center, set up CCICED Special Policy Study on Green Finance and promoted policy implementation.
Her other previous positions included serving as Division Director in the International Cooperation Department of the Environment Ministry of China, in charge of intergovernmental bilateral and multilateral regional cooperation as well as WTO environmental and trade negotiation, and worked in Ecuador as for a Chinese-foreign mining joint venture.
Dr. Fang earned a Ph.D. in environmental economics from China’s renowned Renmin University with a focus on environmental finance, valuation of nature, and emissions trading. She holds two BA degrees from Tianjin University in chemical engineering and business management.
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