Time: 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm, Thursday, February 26, 2026

Venue: Tencent Meeting

Speaker: Jingbo CUI, Associate Professor of Applied Economics at the Division of Social Sciences, Co-Director at the Environmental Research Center, and Director of Graduate Studies for the International Master of Environmental Policy (iMEP) program at Duke Kunshan University; Adjunct Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor at the School of Economics and Management at Wuhan University

Language: Chinese

Bio:  Dr. Jingbo Cui is a tenured Associate Professor of Applied Economics at the Division of Social Sciences, Co-Director at the Environmental Research Center, and Director of Graduate Studies for the International Master of Environmental Policy (iMEP) program at Duke Kunshan University, Adjunct Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor at the School of Economics and Management at Wuhan University.
Dr. Cui’s research centers on Environmental Economics, the Economics of Climate Innovation, and the Economics of Climate Change. His recent research has delved into intriguing topics such as the drivers and obstacles to low-carbon innovation, the economic and environmental impacts of China’s climate policy, and the identification and quantification of financial consequences of climate risks in China. His scholarly contributions have been published in top-tier academic journals, including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Environmental and Resource Economics, Journal of Regional Science, The World Economy, and Energy Economics. He has been serving as an Associate Editor for Environment and Development Economics and a member of the editorial council at JAERE and JEEM, which are top journals in the field of environmental economics. His research projects on China’s Climate Policy and Low-Carbon Innovation have been funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (General Program, Junior Program, and Urgent Program). His research and perspectives on climate policy and energy transition have been covered by Nature Climate Change Highlight reports and world-leading media, such as Financial Times, Nature News in Focus, BBC Worklife, South China Morning Post, and others.
Before the current position at Duke Kunshan University, he was a Chu-Tian Junior Scholar from the Department of Education in Hubei Province, an Associate Professor at the School of Economics and Management at Wuhan University, a Post-doctoral Research Associate, and a visiting scholar at Iowa State University. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Iowa State University, an M.S. in economics from Wuhan University, and a B.S. in economics and mathematics from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China.