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About Xiaomei
Xiaomei Tan is a Senior Associate. In her research, she applies economics and trade theory to energy, climate and urbanization issues. She also fosters high-level dialogues around these critical issues, targeted at improving government and business understanding of where China stands with regards to energy and climate change.
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Previously, Xiaomei was the Deputy China Country Director and the Director of China Sustainable & Livable Cities Initiative of WRI. In this role, she steered WRI’s research agenda in China, directed a team of researchers, and managed strategic relationships with key stakeholders in China. Under her leadership, WRI’s first sustainable & livable case city, Qingdao, was selected by China’s National Development and Reform Commission as a National Low-Carbon Pilot City.
Prior to that, Xiaomei led WRI’s Emerging Actors in Development Finance project. Her research sought to understand how energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies were innovated in OECD countries; how they were introduced, adapted, deployed and diffused in developing countries; the respective capacities of developed and developing countries in innovating and manufacturing these technologies; and, the concerns over intellectual property rights. The project Channeling Emerging Countries’ Overseas Investment Toward Low-carbon Development has not only led to a number of publications, but also facilitated dialogues between major financial institutions in emerging countries and investment recipients in host countries.
In her various roles, Xiaomei has published widely in mainstream and professional journals such as Energy Economics, Energy Policy, Ecological Economy, and Overseas Investment and Export Credits. Xiaomei holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy from American University in Washington DC. Her master’s degree is in Economics and BA in Political Science. Xiaomei is an avid hiker and has completed many sections along the Appalachian Trail and several parts of the Rocky Mountains. Her other passions include jogging and yoga.
