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ITU-T SG16 chairman since 2016, president of I3 international organizations collaboration and coordination department. Senior director in standards and industry development field, Huawei Technologies, Co.,Ltd, based in Lausanne, Switzerland, and in charge of development of strategic relationships with leading international standards organizations including ITU,ISO,IEC, ISO/IEC JTC1 and scores of others. He was educated in Xi’an Jiaotong University, China, with a Doctorate in Automatic Control: Theory and Application. He spent two years in Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, as a postdoctoral research scientist before joining Huawei. Dr. Luo has experience of working in international standards organizations since the early 2000s and he had been based in Europe for leading and supervising standards and ecosystem development tasks 2013-2019 before his current posting in Switzerland.

Her current project looks at international experiences of digital political empowerment in crowdsourcing initiatives on climate change.

Prof Unwin was Secretary General of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) from 2011-2015, and was Chair of the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission from 2009-2014. In 2018-19 he led the co-ordination of 21 UN agencies on behalf of UNESCO and UNICEF to develop a system-wide strategy on the future of education and learning for the UN’s High Level Committee on Programmes and Chief Executives Board.

His influential edited book Information and Communication Technologies for Development, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2009, and his latest book Reclaiming ICT4D was published by Oxford University Press in 2017. Most of his research and writing currently focuses on the inequalities caused by digital technologies and what needs to be done to ensure that the poorest and most marginalised people can benefit from them.

He leads the Climate team in providing strategy and operational support for AIIB in delivering its climate ambitions. He used to work for the World Bank Group in promoting climate finance and for the UN Climate Secretariat in forging international climate governance and collaborations. 

Dr Fang Zhang is Assistant Professor at the School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University. She was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Belfer Center’s Project on Energy Innovation and Decarbonization Project. She holds a PhD in international affairs from the Fletcher School, Tufts University. She also holds another PhD in public administration from School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University. Her research topics include climate policy analysis, clean energy innovation, green finance, and technology transfer.

By earning her admission into the School of Environment at Tsinghua, Guo has made some positive strides. The abundant resources here gave her opportunities to explore her interests and set sail on the two-part discovery, of self and of the world.

“No matter how difficult the challenge is, I want to try new things,” Kaidi explains. “I want to experience new environments, meet new people and expose myself to new ideas.”

Kaidi once conducted her five-month internship in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs at the UN Headquarters in New York. In what would be a whirlwind of an internship adventure, filled with seminar preparations, meetings and report writing, she also learned about handling crises and cultivated a deep appreciation and admiration for the UN and other international organizations.

Now in her second year of Master’s in the School of Environment, Kaidi is as self-motivated and adventurous as ever. She believes that her time of exploring the vast world and bridging gaps is not over yet; in fact, it is just beginning.