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Bio for Jintao Xu
Jintao Xu is professor of economics and director, China Center for Energy and Development
(CCED), National School of Development at Peking University since September 2012. Before
that he served as department head and professor at the Department of Environmental
Management, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University during
2006 and 2012. His research ranges from forest tenure and regulatory reform, forest carbon
and water resource allocation, transportation, to assessment of industrial performance under
environmental regulation. His academic papers appeared in AJAE, World Development,
Land Economics, Ecological Economics, Forest Policy and Economics, and Environment and
Development Economics. His editorial services include: associate editor of AJAE, senior
editor for “Regional Environmental Changes”, member of editorial board for JEEM and EDE.
Jintao Xu also heads the Environmental Economics Program in China (EEPC) based at Peking
University, one of the six world centers sponsored by SIDA. With EEPC he is building
capacity to conduct rigorous economic analysis into China’s environmental and natural
resource policies.
Jintao Xu has frequently been involved with policy consultations with national government
and international organizations. During 2000-2004, he was coordinator of the forestry and
grassland taskforce under China Council for International Cooperation for Environment and
Development (CCICED), and helped formulate advices to Chinese government on polices to
improve implementation of China’s ecological restoration programs. Recently, he served as
senior expert to China’s forest carbon management program. He is a member of the
Asia-Pacific Forest Policy Think Tank under FAO, member of the Council of Scientific
Advisors, Global Adaptation Institute, as well as member of Blue Ribbon Panel for Global
Partnership on Ocean. He also participated in the biannual Sino-US Economic Dialogue
(Track II) organized by the National Council of US-China Relations and Peking University.
Jintao Xu received his master of economics degree in 1996 and Ph.D. in forestry (natural
resource economics) in 1999, both at Virginia Tech. In 1988 he was conferred master of
agricultural sciences in forest economics at Beijing Forestry University. In 1984 he
graduated with bachelor of engineering degree at Jilin University of Technology.