Dr. Mengye Zhu is an assistant research professor at the Center for Global Sustainability. Her research focuses on energy transition and climate mitigation, particularly from a political economy perspective. She has extensive experience conducting fieldwork in the public and private sectors. Her doctoral research analyzed China’s wind power development by exploring the investment logic of central state-owned enterprises (CSOEs) and their interactions with the central/local governments based on in-depth field investigations and both qualitative and quantitative data analysis. Zhu holds a Ph.D. in Public Administration from Tsinghua University, a master’s degree in Public Administration from the University of Pittsburgh, and a bachelor’s degree in Management Sciences from Beijing Foreign Studies University. Before her Ph.D., Zhu worked as a research assistant at the Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy and as a policy analyst at the Climate Policy Institute of Tsinghua University.
- Energy transition; renewable energy investment; climate governance; political economy
Successfully addressing the climate crisis while achieving sustainable development goals will require carefully constructed strategies to enact rapid economic transitions to a cleaner economy—tailored to national circumstances and priorities. The Center for Global Sustainability has deep expertise in country-specific analytical and policy approaches across key sectors and in support of a 1.5°C-pathway.
Learn More about National Climate StrategiesSchool Authors: Mengye Zhu, Tiruwork Berhanu Tibebu, Sha Yu, Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui
Other Authors: Yingtong Li, Xueting Peng, Jingli Fan, Xinzhao Cheng, Xian Zhang
School Authors: Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, Maria Borrero, Christoph Bertram, Jenna Behrendt, Audrey Rader, Mel George, Jiehong Lou, Andy Miller, Tiruwork Berhanu Tibebu, Kowan O’Keefe, Xinyue Li, Mengye Zhu, Claire Squire, Nathan Hultman, Xiangwen Fu, Alicia Zhao
Other Authors: Dmitry Churlyaev, Jordan Snarski, Bhavika Buddi, Alexandra Kreis
School Authors: Jenna Behrendt, Steven J. Smith, Mengye Zhu, Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, Nathan Hultman
Other Authors: Xinzhao Cheng, Shiqi Chen, Anom Ashok Dule, Haiwen Zhang
School Authors: Mengye Zhu, Jenna Behrendt, Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, Nathan Hultman
Other Authors: Xinzhao Cheng, Wenli Li, Yingtong Li, Chengcheng Mei, Lingyan Chen, Sha Fu
School Authors: Mengye Zhu
Other Authors: Yuxin Yin, Dingxiang Zhang, Huawei Zhang, Dachuan Liu , Yan Sun, Huaqi Zhong, Muzhen Ren, Pu Wang
School Authors: Mengye Zhu, Steven J. Smith, Meredydd Evans, Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, Jiehong Lou, Jenna Behrendt, Nathan Hultman, Sha Yu
Other Authors: Minpeng Chen, Qimin Chai, Fei Teng, Pu Wang, Xinzhao Cheng, Wenli Li, Sha Fu, Haiwen Zhang, Manjyot Ahluwalia, Yi Wang
School Authors: Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, Jenna Behrendt, Andy Miller, Christoph Bertram, Mel George, Maria Borrero, Alicia Zhao, Gokul Iyer, Kathleen Kennedy, Jiehong Lou, Haewon McJeon, Mengye Zhu, Nathan Hultman
Other Authors: Matthew Zwerling, Michael Westphal , Alexandra Kreis, Dillon Walton, Aldana Joel Canton, Shiqi Chen, Yingtong Li, Kowan O’Keefe, Shannon Kennedy
School Authors: Mengye Zhu, Jiehong Lou, Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, Nathan Hultman
Other Authors: Xinzhao Cheng, Siman Li, Danqing Li, Fabby Tumiwa, Deon Arinaldo, Wenli Li
School Authors: Mengye Zhu, Leon Clarke, Nathan Hultman
Other Authors: Vaibhav Chaturvedi, Kathryn Hochstetler, Adrien Vogt-Schilb, Pu Wang
School Authors: Mengye Zhu, Nathan Hultman
Other Authors: Faris Al-Sulayman, Alex Clark, Edmund Downie, Rohit Gupta, Kathryn Hochstetler
School Authors: Mengye Zhu, Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, Nathan Hultman, Kathleen Kennedy
School Authors: Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, Mengye Zhu
Other Authors: Diyang Cui, Fabby Tumiwa, Deon Arinaldo, Danqing Li, Siman Li
School Authors: Mengye Zhu, Camryn Dahl
Other Authors: Sarah Dodds, Shannon Kennedy
School Authors: Mengye Zhu
Other Authors: Pu Wang, Dachuan Liu, Arideep Mukherjee, Madhoolika Agrawal, Huawei Zhang, Evgenios Agathokleous, Xue Qiao, Xiaobin Xu, Yan Chen, Tong Wu, Eri Saikawa, Shashi Bhushan Agrawal, Zhaozhong Feng
School Authors: Jenna Behrendt, Mengye Zhu, Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, Meredydd Evans, Nathan Hultman, Haewon McJeon, Steven J. Smith
Other Authors: Sha Yu, Xinzhao Cheng, Wenli Li, Baobao Liu, Jared Williams, Haiwen Zhang, Qimin Chai, Minpeng Chen, Fei Guo, Lena Höglund Isaksson, Nina Khanna, Jiang Lin, Yazhen Wu
School Authors: Jenna Behrendt, Mengye Zhu, Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, Meredydd Evans, Nathan Hultman, Haewon McJeon, Steven J. Smith
Other Authors: Jared Williams, Haiwen Zhang, Baobao Liu, Xinzhao Cheng, Sha Yu, Wenli Li
School Authors: Mengye Zhu
Other Authors: Ming Tie
School Authors: Mengye Zhu, Leon Clarke, Nathan Hultman
Other Authors: Vaibhav Chaturvedi
School Authors: Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, Nathan Hultman, Haewon McJeon, Sha Yu, Morgan Edwards, Christina Bowman, Leon Clarke, Jiehong Lou, Mengye Zhu
Other Authors: Diyang Cui, Arijit Sen, Kaihui Song, Junjie Kang, Fuqiang Yang, Jiahai Yuan, Weirong Zhang
