Author Biographies
Jesse Turiel is a Ph.D. student in the Earth and Environment Department at Boston University. He received dual Bachelor’s degrees in Biology and Geography from Syracuse University, and his current research focuses on the interactions between public opinion and environmental governance in China. Along with Professors Anthony Saich and Edward Cunningham, he is currently administering a multi-annual public opinion survey of Chinese citizens with funding from the Harvard Ash Center for Democratic Governance. Turiel has conducted research on a broad range of energy and environmental issues, and has experience teaching courses in sustainable development, renewable energy, and international economics.
Iza Ding is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research examines post-Socialist political and economic development, with a substantive focus on bureaucracy, public opinion and environmentalism, and a regional focus on Asia and Central and Eastern Europe. She received her Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University in 2016, and B.A. in Political Science and Russian and Eastern European Studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 2009.
John Chung-En Liu is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Occidental College. During 2015–2016, he was the China Energy Policy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School. Liu received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, joint Master’s degrees in Economics and Environmental Management from Yale University, and a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from National Taiwan University. His research draws from economic and environmental sociology to study climate change governance. He has also published on the environmental public opinions in China.