Ma Zhong is Deputy Director at iGDP. He is also Professor at the School of Environment and Natural Resources, Renmin University of China.

Prof. Ma is the leading scholar in China in researching and implementing environmental economics and policies. He has worked extensively with government and international agencies on a variety of research topics in China and has been engaged in national and international environmental policymaking on topics such as environmental finance and taxation, the Montreal Protocol, SO2 emission trading, and water pricing. In the past ten years, he also has been working on the institutional reform of environmental administration in China. Prof. Ma serves as senior advisor to the China Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) as well as of different provincial governments, and is a member of the China Council for International Cooperation of Environment and Development (CCICED). In 2009, Ma Zhong was awarded China's Annual Green Person award.

Dr. Yang Fuqiang is Senior Advisor on the Climate Change and Energy Transition Program (CCETP) at the Institute of Energy at Beijing University.

Dr. Yang has worked on China's sustainable energy strategy and policy for more than four decades and has extensive research experience in energy savings in building, industrial, and transportation sectors, low carbon cities, electricity and renewable energy, as well as climate change. Prior to joining CCETP, he was Senior Advisor on Energy, Environment and Climate Change at the Natural Resources Defense Council. Dr. Yang was the Director of Global Climate Solutions at WWF's International Headquarter, and Vice President of Energy Foundation and Chief Representative of Energy Foundation Beijing Office. Before 2000, Dr. Yang worked with the State Planning Commission's Energy Research Institute in China, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the USA. Dr. Yang received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering at West Virginia University and his B.S. in Physics at Jilin University.