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Shengmin graduated from the Department of Energy Engineering of Zhejiang University in 1994, and held a master’s degree in “Management Science and Engineering” from the School of Public Administration of Tsinghua University in 2002. He also received a Master of “Renewable Energy System Technology” from Loughborough University in the United Kingdom in 2007.

Shengmin worked in Jiangxi Xinyu Power Generation Co., Ltd. from 1994 to 1999; worked as an assistant researcher and associate researcher at the Energy Research Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission from 2002 to 2012. He has been working at NCSC since 2012, and currently serves as a deputy director of the market mechanism research department (clean development mechanism project management center). The research field is mainly for the market mechanism for responding to climate change and the monitoring, reporting and verification method of greenhouse gas emissions.

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Wangshu was the Deputy Director of the Climate Dep. of NDRC, having more than 10 years’ experience in the low carbon development and energy areas. He led a large number of Carbon Emission Trial projects, low carbon trial project in different provinces and the cities, and participated the legal document and policy drafting, Chinese carbon emission reducing target making and assessment, and the report drafting on the climate change in China. He also joined many international cooperation projects on the low carbon and carbon market eg. Market Partnership Reserve Fund of World Bank.
He is the key specialist of the EU -China Carbon Market Cooperation Platform, and plays the important role in EU- China Energy Dialogue and Cooperation, British Prosperity Fund project , and Chinese Energy and Low Carbon projects.

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Based in China since 2011, Huw is an Energy and Climate Specialist at ClientEarth. He currently works on the EU-China Environment Project, which fosters policy integration and collaboration between China and the EU through a series of exchange activities on environmental protection and the green economy, bringing together policymakers and researchers from both sides. He previously worked on the EU-China Emissions Trading Cooperation Platform, the UK Prosperity Fund China Energy and Low Carbon Economy Programme, and with the Chinese NGO Institute for Environment and Development. Huw is the lead author of the annual China Carbon Pricing Survey reports, the most in-depth and extensive summaries of stakeholder views on China's carbon market development.

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He has been working on the carbon trading during the last decade. He was the Head of Emissions Trading for PetroChina, managing their carbon asset in the Europe and trading globally. At PetroChina, he did the first trade, when first 4 of the Chinese pilots carbon markets launched in 2013. He is now based in Shanghai helping Engie to build a leading trading business to support their international and domestic clients in China’s carbon and power market. His hands-on experience as a compliance entity and trading player in the EU ETS, investor in CDM projects, trader of allowances and CCER in China’s pilot markets, pioneer in China’s national ETS, gives him unique skillset to face the challenges in today’s global carbon markets.