Worldwatch Institute Staff

Biography

Yingling Liu, China Program Manager

Email: yliu@worldwatch.org
Phone: +1 (202) 452-1992

Yingling Liu is China Program Manager at the Worldwatch Institute, where she coordinates research and communications on Chinese energy and environmental issues. Yingling contributes her research and writing to a variety of Institute publications, including the online news service Eye on Earth and the Vital Signs indicator series. In addition, she facilitates the translation and publication of Worldwatch materials in China.

Yingling joined Worldwatch in 2005. Since then, she has spoken at venues including the Institute's State of the World 2006 briefing in Washington, D.C., the Worldwatch-Heinrich Böll Foundation joint seminar on the "Foreign Policy Implications of China's Energy Policy" on Capitol Hill, the Tufts University Cross-Cultural Leadership Symposium on "Asia's Rising Giants: China and India," and the Smithsonian Institution's roundtable on the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China). She also presented at a Beijing briefing on energy and environment for the Swiss Minister of Economics and her delegation of more than 40 senior business people.

Prior to coming to Worldwatch, Yingling worked with the Yale Office of International Affairs on large-scale training programs for Chinese senior government officials and university administrators. Before moving to the United States in 2003, she worked for seven years with the All-China Journalists Association, China's national media organization, first as an officer and then as deputy chief of the America & Oceana Division. There, she worked with visiting journalists on various on-the-spot reporting missions and wrote for Chinese newspapers and magazines.

Yingling has given interviews to such outlets as Voice of America, CNN Money, South China Morning Post, AFP, Greenwire, and UPI, and was recently featured on the PBS television program "Foreign Exchange." Yingling holds an M.A. in International Relations from Yale University and a B.A. in English Literature from Beijing Normal University in China.

Selected Publications

“China Uses Green Loans to Tackle Environmental Problems,” Eye on Earth, 11 February 2008.

“The Game-Playing behind China’s Fuel Crisis,” China Watch, 6 December 2007.

“China’s Coming Environmental Renaissance,” China Watch, 29 November 2007.

“E-Waste in China - For the Sake of China’s Children,” Recycling Magazine, November 2007.

“Chinese Biofuels Expansion Threatens Ecological Disaster,” China Watch, 13 March 2007.

“Used Cooking Oil Promises to Fuel China’s Rapidly Expanding Car Fleet,” China Watch, 12 October 2006.

“Made in China, or Made by China? Chinese Wind Turbine Manufacturers Struggle to Enter Own Market,” China Watch, 19 May 2006.

“Behind the Chilly Air: Impacts of China’s New Wind Pricing Regulation,” China Watch, 30 March 2006.