Policy Meeting: EU-China Climate Collaboration in the Era of Poly-Crisis

Mr Zhonghua Xu has 20+ year-experience on R&D and projects development in university and international energy giants. His expertise covers materials, energy, chemicals, environment, microelectronics, etc. He has strong network with energy and chemical industry, international academic labs and public institutes, government. He understands well the challenge, opportunity and evolution of innovation for energy and chemical industry.

Sharon Feng leads Wood Mackenzie’s research coverage for China power and renewables. She helps clients to understand the latest market trends in China and grows China business with her market knowhow and expertise.  Sharon also manages the China power modeling and market analysis team and provides wider supports to renewables, gas, coal and other teams. 

Sharon has over ten years of market research and policy analysis experience in the China power and renewable energy sector.  Prior to joining Wood Mackenzie, Sharon was the Director of Research and Advisory Service of Azure International, where she provided renewable and power consulting services and decarbonization services for clients.  She has also worked for other international companies including General Electrics, Siemens, HSBC and American Chamber of Commerce South China. 

Sharon is also a student of the dual-degree EMBA program of Tsinghua-INSEAD. She holds a bachelor degree of International Business at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies and a diploma of Finance at Peking University.

Mr. Kevin Tu is the Managing Director of Agora Energy Transition China. He is also an adjunct professor at the School of Environment of Beijing Normal University, and a non-resident fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, Institut français des relations internationales (Ifri) and the Institute of Energy at Peking University.

Prior to his affiliation with Agora, Kevin Tu served various key positions, including as China program manager at Paris-based International Energy Agency, director of China Energy & Climate Program at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC., partner at a Vancouver-based premier energy consulting firm, director of marine operations at China’s largest LPG importer and distributor, and construction project manager at Sinopec, a Chinese national oil company.

Kevin Tu has more than two decades of solid experience in the energy and environmental fields as well as government affairs in Asia Pacific, North America and Europe. His research interests cover the full spectrum of energy issues including fossil fuel value chains, energy transitions, energy sector reforms, climate change, and corporate strategy & transformation, with a focus on EU-China relations and U.S.-China relations, and their implications for China’s energy & climate policies.