Prénom de l'expert

Kevin

Nom de l'expert

TU

Associate Research Fellow, Energy and Climate Center, Ifri

Research Areas:

Fossil fuel value chains
Energy transitions
Energy sector reforms
Climate change
China

Center for Energy & Climate

Kevin Jianjun Tu is a Non-Resident Fellow at Ifri's Energy and Climate Center, he is also the managing director of Agora Energy Transition China, and an adjunct professor at the School of Environment of Beijing Normal University.

Prior to his affiliation with Ifri, Tu had served various key positions including China program manager at Paris-based International Energy Agency, director of China Energy & Climate Program at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC., partner at a Vancouver-based premier energy consulting firm, director of marine operations at China’s largest LPG importer and distributor, and construction project manager at Sinopec, a Chinese national oil company.

Tu has more than two decades of solid experience in the energy and environmental fields as well as government affairs in Asia Pacific, North America and Europe, his research interests cover the full spectrum of energy issues including fossil fuel value chains, energy transitions, energy sector reforms, climate change, and corporate strategy & transformation, with a focus on EU-China relations and U.S.-China relations, and their implications for China’s energy & climate policies.

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Publications

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Studies

The EU Green Deal External Impacts: Views from China, India, South Africa, Türkiye and the United States

29 May 2024

Ahead of June 2024 European elections and against the backdrop of growing geopolitical and geoeconomic frictions, if not tensions, between the EU and some of its largest trade partners, not least based on the external impacts of the European Green Deal (EGD), Ifri chose to collect views and analyses from leading experts from China, India, South Africa, Türkiye and the United States of America (US) on how they assess bilateral relations in the field of energy and climate, and what issues and opportunities they envisage going forward.

Marc-Antoine EYL-MAZZEGA Diana-Paula GHERASIM Kevin TU Thibault DENAMIEL Narendra TANEJA Gaylor MONTMASSON-CLAIR Fatin DURUKAN

Sino-American Climate Diplomacy

17 March 2022

During COP26, Beijing and the Biden administration committed to reviving Sino-American cooperation on climate issues, in the name of their common interest in climate stability.

Kevin TU

Studies

Prospects of a Hydrogen Economy with Chinese Characteristics

21 October 2020

This study assesses the prospects of a hydrogen economy with Chinese characteristics. Against the backdrop of an escalating US-China trade war and the ongoing novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, key Chinese stakeholders become increasingly interested in moving the hydrogen economy agenda forward.

Kevin TU