20170511 - Speaker Biographies

20170511 - Speaker Biographies

Speaker Biographies

Isabel Hilton

Isabel Hilton  is a London based writer and broadcaster. She is founder and CEO of chinadialogue, an independent, non-profit organisation operating out of London, Beijing, Delhi and Sao Paolo. She has reported from China, South Asia, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Europe, presented news and current affairs on BBC radio and television and worked for or contributed to national and international publications that include the Sunday Times, the Independent, the New Yorker, the Guardian, New York Times and many others. She has authored and co-authored several books and holds honorary doctorates from Bradford and Stirling Universities. She is Visiting Professor at the Lau Institute, Kings College, London.​

Tom Burke

Tom Burke is the Chairman of E3G, Third Generation Environmentalism. He is a Visiting Professor at both Imperial and University Colleges, London. He is a member of the External Review Committee of Shell and the Sustainable Sourcing Advisory Board of Unilever and a Trustee of the Black-E Community Arts Project, Liverpool.

Prasenjit Duara

Prasenjit is the Oscar Tang Chair of East Asian Studies at Duke University.  Born and educated in India, he received his PhD in Chinese history from Harvard University. He was Professor of History and East Asian Studies at University of Chicago (1991-2008) and Raffles Professor and Director of Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore (2008-2015). His latest book is The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Cambridge 2014). He is being awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Oslo in Sep 2017.

Li Shuo

Li Shuo is a Senior Global Policy Advisor for Greenpeace East Asia based in Beijing. He directs Greenpeace China’s climate and ocean campaigns with particular focus on coal, air pollution, renewable energy, and the fishery sector. Internationally, Li coordinates the organization’s engagement with the United Nations climate negotiation (UNFCCC) and has been participating UN meetings since 2010. Li studied International Law and Sino-U.S relations in China. He was also an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in Berlin in 2015.

Jennifer Turner

Jennifer has been the director of the China Environment Forum at the Woodrow Wilson Center for 17 years where she creates meetings, exchanges and publications focusing on a variety of energy and environmental challenges facing China, particularly on water, energy and green civil society issues. She leads the Wilson Center’s Global Choke Point Initiative, which together with Circle of Blue, has produced multimedia reports, films, and convening on water-energy-food confrontations in China, India, Mexico, South Africa, and the United States. Other major initiatives include: Cooperative Competitors: Building U.S.-China Clean Energy Partnerships, From Farm to Chopsticks: Food Safety Challenges in China, and Storytelling is Serious Business Workshops For Chinese Environmental Professionals. Jennifer also serves as editor of the Wilson Center’s journal, the China Environment Series and most recently coauthored China’s Water-Energy-Food Roadmap. She received a Ph.D. in Public Policy and Comparative Politics in 1997 from Indiana University, Bloomington. Her dissertation examined local government innovation in implementing water policies in the China.