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Lingshui Mo is the climate and energy policy expert, Asian Development Bank (ADB), working on carbon market, low carbon city development, green finance, low carbon technology transfer and finance. She provides technical advice and develops knowledge products to assist ADB in regional carbon market development, carbon finance, pilot low carbon city program, establishing climate technology financing mechanisms, supporting implementation of NDCs in ADB’s Developing Member Countries (DMCs) etc.
Before she worked for ADB, she was the Qualification Director in Camco Carbon Credit Limited (China), where she managed the team to develop the qualified China’s CDM projects portfolio. From 1991 to 2003, She worked in Guangxi Development and Reform Commission. She was a deputy director of planning division in charge of developing Five Years economic development plan, economic policy formulation, regional planning and urban infrastructure investment planning, assessing and approving urban infrastructure projects etc. She holds Master degree in Economics and MA in international finance.
She is the author of the book: 《Accounting of Green Cost and Green Revenue for Green Investment in One Belt One Road Countries》, leading author of publication-《Emission Trading Schemes and their Linking: Challenges and Opportunities in Asia and the Pacific》(ADB, 2015), the co-author of the several books, including 《Low-carbon Energy Systems and Green Growth in Asia》（Springer 2015）,《Globalization of Low-Carbon Technologies》（Springer 2016）,《Unlocking the Potentials of Private Sector Financing for Accelerated Low-Carbon Energy Transition》(springer 2017).

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For the past 18 years, Gracie Sun has represented and advised multinational corporations on government strategy, market access, communication strategy, crisis management, intellectual property, and investment issues in China, serving in wide range of industries including Pharmaceutical, Telecommunication, Media and Entertainment, Mining, Agriculture, Banking and Financial Organizations, and the others. Gracie’s clients have included Sesame Workshop, Sony Music, Time Warner, Broadway Nederlander Family, Nielson, Pfizer, J&J, MSD, NYSE, NASDAQ, Bloomberg, Avery Dennison, Mary Kay, International Paper, Oracle, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and many other companies.

Currently, Gracie is a Senior Advisor at the Paulson Institute at The University of Chicago, founded by the Former US Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson. She is also the deputy head of the newly launched Green Finance Center at the Paulson institute.

Prior to that, she worked as a Senior Counsel at Ogilvy Public Relations China. She served as Executive Vice President of Sierra Asia, an Advisory firm based in Beijing, Shanghai and Washington DC, founded by a former senior level U.S. trade official. She was Managing Director for China with Albright Stonebridge International, a consulting firm headed by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former U.S. National Security Advisor Sandy Berger. During her time at Stonebridge, she served as the China Representative to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and represented major U.S., European and Chinese firms in the market. She also worked for MBP Consulting, the Asia consulting practice of Mayer, Brown, a top 10 law firm based in Chicago, founded by Ambassador Mickey Kantor, a Chicago-based law firm.

She has an MBA and lives and works in Shanghai.