LIN, JIANG

Senior Vice President of the Energy Foundation

Director of the China Sustainable Energy Program

Dr. Jiang Lin is Vice President and Director of the China Sustainable Energy Program (CSEP) at the Energy Foundation. Before joining CSEP, Dr. Lin was a Senior Scientist with the China Energy Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) in Berkeley, California. At LBNL, Dr. Lin was a leading researcher on China’s energy efficiency and renewable energy policies, serving as an advisor to numerous Chinese agencies, the World Bank, and the United Nations Development Program. In addition to advising Shanghai on market-based policies to stimulate investment in energy conservation, he was also a long-time CSEP grantee, helping to develop several of China’s appliance efficiency standards and low-carbon development scenarios. Dr. Lin received his Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 1984, and his Ph.D. in demography from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1992. He conducted post-doctoral work at the University of Pennsylvania.