Race to the top: public supervision and local environmental information transparency in China

Venue: Room 250, Mong Man Wai Building, Zijingang Campus

Speaker:

Rui Wang is Associate Professor of Energy, Resources and Environment at the the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. He received BS,BAand MS from Peking University and a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Harvard University Kennedy School of Government.

He specializes in public policy analysis for sustainable development, especially on cities, the environment, and China. He teaches Applied Policy Analysis with Cases in Sustainable Development, Cities: Toward Sustainable Prosperity, and Global Environment Fundamentals. He is the inaugural SAIS China Yeung Family Endowed Scholar and a faculty fellow of the SAIS Initiative for Sustainable Energy Policy. He serves on the editorial boards of Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment and the Journal of Transportation and Statistics. He has also consulted for the Beijing Municipal Institute of City Planning and Design, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the World Bank.