Alan Beebe was appointed President of the American Chamber of Commerce in China on Mar. 14, 2016.

Alan was an Executive Director based in Beijing, leading EY China’s Cleantech and Supply Chain and Operations (SC&O) practices. His clients include major global corporations, primarily diversified industrials and high-technology companies operating in China.

Prior to joining EY, Alan held Executive positions with the China Greentech Initiative (CGTI), IBM, and management consulting firms AT Kearney and PRTM. He has twenty years of management consulting experience in the US, China and other Asian countries helping clients develop and implement sound business, operations and technology strategies. At EY China, he helps global clients transform their business models to drive new revenue opportunities and preserve profitability in China’s changing economic climate.

From 2010 to 2013, Alan was a Managing Director with CGTI, a collaboration platform serving over 50 international energy and environmental companies. At CGTI, he led advisory services and strategic research across all major areas of energy and cleantech. In 2014, CGTI merged with the Paulson Institute, founded by Hank Paulson.

Alan holds a Master’s degree from Yale University in International Relations and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Computer Science from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the United States. He is a Board of Advisor of the Yale Club of Beijing and in that capacity promotes academic and cultural exchanges between the United States and China. Alan has lived in China since 2002 and speaks Chinese fluently.

Lena Hansen is a Managing Director at RMI where she co-leads the China Program. She has 15 years of experience developing, testing, and implementing innovative efficiency and clean energy solutions. For the past several years, she led RMI’s U.S. Electricity Program, where she focused on electric utility business models and the integration of renewable and distributed energy resources into the grid. She co-founded RMI’s Electricity Innovation Lab (eLab), a unique multi-year collaboration of leading power sector decision-makers to create transformational solutions, and co-authored the electricity chapter of Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for a New Energy Era. Lena holds a master’s degree in Environmental Economics & Policy from Duke University, and a bachelor’s degree in Astrophysics from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

TIAN Zhiyu, Associate Professor, Deputy Director of Energy Efficiency Center, Energy Research Institute of National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), MS, graduate from Tsinghua University in 2006. TIAN Zhiyu focuses on policy research on energy efficiency, energy strategy, climate change. He participated in compiling China’s Energy Revolution Strategy (2016-2030), Energy Conservation Plan for the 13th FYP, Energy Development Plan for the 13th FYP, etc. His recent research focuses on Reinventing Fire China, reaching an early peak of carbon emission in China. TIAN Zhiyu published over 20 papers and 15 books, and has been awarded by NDRC, NEA and AMR in numerous researches."

Daniel Wetzel is a Manager within Rocky Mountain Institute’s China program, located in Beijing. Dan leads RMI’s Electricity Reform Analysis Initiative in China, providing regulators with economic analysis and advice to support designing economically efficient, renewable-focused electricity markets for China. Dan has been with RMI since 2013.

Dan works advising power market design in China, working with researchers, policymakers, and industry to recommend which market designs best support China’s economic and environmental goals. This effort, a collaboration with State Grid’s China Electric Power Research Institute (CEPRI), uses dispatch and market models to evaluate the economic impacts to various stakeholders under different market designs.

Dan also supports the Business Renewables Center (BRC) in China, providing policy and economic analysis for corporate procurement of renewables, helping develop first-of-kind renewable procurement deal formats in China.

He was also a primary researcher for the electricity sector analysis for “Reinventing Fire: China”, a whole-systems, low-emission energy roadmap for China coauthored with Lawrence Berkeley National Labs and China’s National Development and Reform Commission’s Energy Research Institute. This study looks to inform China’s 13th Five Year Plan, an important policy decision that will determine China’s energy strategy for the next five years.

Before joining the China Initiative, Dan supported research and consulting efforts with RMI’s practices in the U.S., including:
•Developing recommendations for New York Public Service to evaluate Information Technology infrastructure investments for utilities
•Conducting scenario-based visioning research to explore the impact of disruptive future tech on global energy systems
•Designing implementation plans for renewable-driven electricity systems on Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
•Developing comprehensive economic and predictive models for communities to reach carbon emission reductions

Annie Yang Zhou is the Director of External Affairs of the U.S.-China Green Fund. She is also the Founder and Managing Partner of Universal Pacific Advisors LLC, a cross-border financial, strategy, and government relations consulting company. Prior to founding the company, she was a development and research associate with the World Policy Institute, a non-partisan think tank dedicated to solution-focused policy analysis, where she helped to publish a paper entitled “The Water-Energy Nexus: Adding Water to the Energy Agenda.” Previously, Annie was an associate with Neuberger Berman (formerly Lehman Brothers Asset Management) responsible for business development, investor relations, and new product development in the Quantitative Investment Group. Prior to Neuberger Berman, she was a derivatives analyst with MetLife Investments.

She earned her MBA from University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School, MPA from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, where she serves as an ambassador, and her BBA from George Washington University.