Chi Zhang is a Professor in Economics and Policy of Energy and the Environment at the School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology. She is the vice director of Lancet Countdown Regional Centre for Asia, the associate editor of Applied Energy and the editorial board member of Environmental Research Letters. Her research areas include climate change and healthy economics, energy economics and sustainable development, environmental economics and management. She has published papers in The Lancet Public Health, Applied Energy, Energy Conversion and Management, among others.