Qi Ye
Professor of Environmental Policy and Management
Director, Institute of Public Policy
Tsinghua University

Dr. Ye Qi is Professor of Environmental Policy and Management, and Director of the Public Policy Institue at Tsinghua University, and Cheungkong Professor of Environmental Science at Beijing Normal University. He current research includes environmental governance, climate change policy and natural resource management. He teaches environmental policy, public policy analysis and strategic thinking and decision-making at Tsinghua. Before he returned to China in 2003, Dr. Qi taught ecosystem modeling and management at Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management in University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Qi received his Ph. D. in Environmental Science in 1994 from State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry and from Syracuse University. Recipient of NOAA Postdoctoral Fellowship Award (1994, Climate and Global Change) and NSF Fellowship (1995, Computer and Information Science), Dr. Qi worked with Dr. Charles D. Keeling on Climate Change at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego and University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, before he joined the faculty at the Theory Center of Cornell University. Qi studied agriculture, ecology and economics from Hebei Agricultural University (BS), the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (MS) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (PHD).