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Jiaqi Lu
Associate Director
Jiaqi Lu is an Assistant Professor in the Carbon Neutrality and Climate Change Thrust at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) and Associate Director of CGCS. His work focuses on global energy transitions, energy and climate policy, international climate governance, comparative environmental politics, and energy-technology innovation.
Before joining HKUST(GZ), he was a senior researcher at Boston University’s Global Development Policy Center and a postdoctoral researcher at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. He also held a predoctoral research position at Harvard Kennedy School and worked on energy and climate policy at the Brookings Institution. He earned a joint PhD in political science and environmental science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2023.
His research has appeared in Science, Nature Energy, Nature Geoscience, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Energy Policy and other journals.
Selected work
- Developing countries locked out of low-carbon technology trade, Science (2025).
- The potential for differentiated vehicle segment tariffs, Nature Energy (2025).
- Measuring energy transition away from fossil fuels: A new index, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews (2024, with Ye Qi and Tianle Liu).
- The China wind paradox: The role of state-owned enterprises in wind power investment versus wind curtailment, Energy Policy (2019).
Email: jiaqilu@hkust-gz.edu.cn
Office: E4 L3 309
芦佳琪是香港科技大学（广州）碳中和与气候变化学域助理教授、全球气候战略中心秘书长。他研究全球能源转型、能源与气候政策、国际气候治理、比较环境政治及能源技术创新。
加入港科大（广州）前，他曾任波士顿大学全球发展政策中心高级研究员、乔治城大学外交学院博士后研究员、哈佛大学肯尼迪政府学院博士前研究员；更早曾在布鲁金斯学会从事能源与气候政策研究。2023 年获威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校政治学与环境科学联合博士学位。
其研究发表于 Science、Nature Energy、Nature Geoscience、Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews、Energy Policy 等期刊。
代表性成果
- Developing countries locked out of low-carbon technology trade，Science（2025）。
- The potential for differentiated vehicle segment tariffs，Nature Energy（2025）。
- Measuring energy transition away from fossil fuels: A new index，Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews（2024，与齐晔、刘天乐合作）。
- The China wind paradox: The role of state-owned enterprises in wind power investment versus wind curtailment，Energy Policy（2019）。
邮箱：jiaqilu@hkust-gz.edu.cn
办公室：E4 L3 309