Negotiation in Decentralization

Dr. Ming Yang is Senior Environmental Economist at an international organization based in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining the organization, he worked for four years as Energy and Environment Economist and Energy Technology Economist for the International Energy Agency of the OECD in Paris. Before that, he was Energy Adviser and Climate Change Specialist for two years at the Asian Development Bank. Dr Yang is good at quantitative analysis in issues related to economics, engineering, technology and climate change. In 1986, he undertook a feasibility study with MARKAL model on China's Three Gorges Power Plant. In 1994, he simulated negotiation process by using EFOM model. In 2007, with the IEA's ETP model (the new version of MARKAL) he designed two scenarios for IEA's Energy Technology Perspectives 2008. Over the past two decades, he has about 100 articles published in journals and conference proceedings. He significantly contributed to quantitative analysis and writing of four books on energy and climate change that were published in the Asian Development Bank and the International Energy Agency. Ming holds a Ph.D. in energy economics and planning from the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok jointly with l'Institut d'Economie et de Politique de l'Energie (IEPE), Université des Sciences Sociales, Grenoble, France.

Mr. Fan Yang has two years of work experience in economics and environment in an international organization and couple of universities, including the United Nations Environment Program in Washington, D.C., the University of Melbourne in Australia, and Monash University in Australia. Fan is talented with economic and statistics analyses. He has three papers published in top international journals. Currently, he is studying for an advanced degree in statistics science at Gorge Mason University in the USA.