Professor Wing Thye WOO, a world-renowned economist and full-time teacher from Liaoning University was invited to attend the 29th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) and delivered a keynote speech on the theme of optimizing energy mix to achieve sustainable development. His paper in the speech was later published on Fulbright Review of Economics and Policy, an internationally renowned journal.
Professor Wing Thye WOO accurately evaluated the effectiveness of the current energy policies in promoting low-carbon development in the region by using multi-scenario modeling technology. By optimizing the renewable energy mix including energy storage, he explored the way to reduce carbon emissions in the power sector and achieve cost optimization, which provided important theoretical support for formulating scientific and reasonable energy policies.
The United Nations Climate Change Conference is a global conference based on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which came into effect in 1994. It is held once a year to advocate countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, cope with global climate change and jointly promote the sustainable development of mankind. This year’s conference was held in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan.
Wing Thye Woo, a Ph.D. from Harvard University, a professor of economics at the University of California, Davis, senior researcher at the Brookings Institution and Director of the East Asia Program at Columbia University. His research fields are macroeconomics, international finance and exchange rate economy, economic growth and development, globalization and East Asian issues. He enjoys a high academic reputation in the fields of economics and finance. About 150 papers and several monographs have been published in some top international journals, such as American Economic Review, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking and Journal of International Money and Finance. His paper was awarded as one of the 25 most influential papers in the 30-year history by the Journal of International Economics.
In addition, Professor Wing has served as an academic consultant for many international academic journals, an editor-in-chief of The Asian Economic Papers and Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies and collaborative editors of Planning Economics and Asian Economic Journal. While holding research positions in many universities, research institutions and international organizations around the world, he has provided decision-making suggestions for many government departments and international institutions in many countries in macro-economy, foreign exchange management, state-owned enterprise restructuring, trade issues and the development of financial sectors.
