Yang Li joined iGDP in April 2015 and is currently researching energy and low carbon policies, as well as analyzing energy economics. She has worked at the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) as a consulting expert and has done research on the Chinese Environmental Taxation System as part of a major project supported by the National Social Science Foundation. She also has experience researching China’s Water Environment Protection Price and Taxation Policy as part of a project on national water pollution control and treatment technology. She received her Ph.D. in Population, Resources, and Environmental Economics from China’s Renmin University in 2014.