Executive Director, Cities and Regions

Mr. Zhigao Wang is the Executive Director for Cities and Regions of The Energy Foundation. He oversees the organization’s climate mitigation activities at key cities and regions by supporting climate and energy policy research, catalyzing demonstration of low carbon solutions, and conducting capacity building.

Mr. Wang’s expertise and experiences are mainly on climate mitigation in areas of built environment, including carbon neutrality oriented urban-rural infrastructure transition, land and space planning, human oriented transport system design, building energy conservation, and building electrification.

Mr. Wang and his team were involved in many milestone policies in reshaping urban space and building energy system, and several award-wining low carbon pilot solutions in urban and rural areas.

Mr. Wang has a PhD degree in Civil Engineering from Northeastern University.