Junjie Zhang

Junjie Zhang is a professor in the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University and Director of the Initiative for Sustainable Investment at Duke Kunshan University. He founded and directed Duke Kunshan’s Environmental Research Center and International Master of Environmental Policy Program. Before that, he was an associate professor in the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California, San Diego. He was also a Volkswagen Visiting Chair in Sustainability at Tsinghua University’s Schwarzman College.

Prof. Zhang is President of the Shanghai Jinsinan Institute of Finance, a Shanghai-based NGO that operates the Green Finance Forum of 60 and promotes sustainable finance research and practice. He is an independent board member of the Huatai Securities Asset Management Company, Changjiang Pension Insurance Company, and Bank of Guizhou.

Prof. Zhang’s recent research focuses on empirical issues in climate change economics, sustainable finance, and ESG. He has received funding from a wide variety of sources, including scientific foundations, multilateral banks, corporations, financial institutions, and philanthropic foundations. 

Prof. Zhang holds a B.S. from the Renmin University of China, a B.S. and an M.S. from Tsinghua University, and a Ph.D. from Duke University.