Li Jin, assistant manager of Shanghai Environment and Energy Exchange and director of R&D Department. She holds a PhD’s degree in environmental and energy economics, as well as senior economist. She joined the Exchange in 2009 and has contributed to every step of carbon market construction as the key member of ETS in Shanghai. She is managing trading rule design and operation, products innovation and regulation in Shanghai carbon market. She has been responsible for several Shanghai ETS pilot projects designated by national and local government as well as some international cooperative projects including World Bank, Asia Development Bank, British Embassy and US Energy Foundation. She has been responsible for the design of carbon collateral financing, carbon repo and carbon lending and promotion those business models among business. In 2016, she took charge the design of China’s first carbon allowance forward derivatives in the exchange cooperated with SH Clearing House. She has published several research papers about environment finance, carbon market, environmental policy and climate change policy.

Feng Long is the Public and Governmental Affairs Manager, in charge of Emission Trade System (ETS) in Covestro Polymers (China) Co. Ltd. She has participated in the construction work for Carbon Emission Trading Pilot System in Shanghai since 2012, and has been actively supporting the promotion of Shanghai ETS pilot.

Zexu (Paul) Zhang joined carbon market in 2008 with carbon aggregator ICECAP. In 2009, Zexu joined commodity trading house Vitol and was mainly responsible for Vitol's CDM operation. He was a partner in Vitol and has traded in other markets such as Northsea Brent Crude and futures. In early 2016, Paul decided to start his own venture and founded Cypress Energy to trade in Chinese Carbon market. Within the past year, Cypress Energy has grown to become one of the leading aggregators in CCER market and one of the main market makers in the pilot Emission Allowances markets.

Zhao Xiaolu gained Masters degree of Environmental Engineering at University of Michigan. She has worked in Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) and Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), and conducted numerous research works on climate changes, carbon trading market, and energy management and policy assessment. She has published Tracking Emissions and Mitigation Actions: Learning from MRV Systems in China, Germany, Italy, and the United States, Emission Trading and Institutional Innovation: Lessons Learned from China’s Carbon Trading Pilots, Development and Experiences from Carbon Emission Trading Markets in North America. She is deeply participated in the Carbon Market Capacity Building events in China, and international communication, cooperation and research projects. The research of Covering Transportation Sector into Shenzhen ETS that she participated in was selected as one of the Sino-US Green Partnership Programs.