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Dongmei Chen is a Principal Fellow in the Oil and Gas Department at KAPSARC, Saudi Arabia. Her research focuses on China’s overseas energy investment, energy trade, regional energy cooperation, and supply chain integration. With over 30 years of experience in energy and climate policy, she is dedicated to advancing the understanding of China’s energy economic relations with the GCC region and the global community.

Fuqiang Yang is a Senior Advisor of the Climate Change and Energy Transition Program (CCETP) at the Institute of Energy at Peking University, China. As an expert on climate change and energy, he has worked on China’s sustainable energy strategy and policy for more than 4 decades and researched extensively on energy savings in building, industrial, and transportation sectors, low carbon cities, electricity, and renewable energy, as well as climate change.

Lei Yang is a Research Professor, Deputy Dean of the Institute of Energy, and Deputy Dean of the Institute of Carbon Neutrality at Peking University, China. He is member of Global Sustainable Energy Education Council at Columbia University, USA. He has served as Senior Advisor to the Executive Director Fatih Birol of the International Energy Agency, France from 2016 to 2019; Director and Deputy Director General of National Development and Reform Commission and the National Energy Administration of China since 2002.

Majed Alsuwailem is a Senior Fellow in the Oil and Gas Department at KAPSARC, Saudi Arabia specializing in geoeconomics, natural resource governance, and sustainable energy policy. Majed holds multiple engineering and economic degrees from the University of Tulsa, USA, Texas A&M University, USA, IFP School, France and Purdue University, USA His recent research interests are highly pertinent to the evolving energy landscape. These include the economics of geothermal energy, China’s energy strategy, and phantom oil.