{"id":5680,"date":"2018-11-06T12:31:19","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T17:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=5680"},"modified":"2025-11-07T13:54:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T18:54:51","slug":"yating-li","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/profile\/yating-li\/","title":{"rendered":"Yating Li"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yating Li is a Former Global China Research Fellow with the Boston University Global Development Policy Center and a fifth-year PhD candidate in environmental economics at Duke University, and an Energy PhD Fellow\u00a0at the Duke University Energy Initiative. In spring 2018, she founded the\u00a0Riding the Belt and Road Network\u00a0to support collaboration among faculties and students on issues related to the Belt and Road Initiative by China. In her final chapter of dissertation, she is examining the environmental impact of Chinese overseas coal-fired power plants, using data from the GDP Center&#8217;s\u00a0China\u2019s Global Energy Finance\u00a0database. Her previous work mainly examines household electricity consumption in China using micro-level data sets, including the response to income growth, inequality, air pollution and climate change. She is very interested in energy access issues in Africa. She co-led the\u00a0Global Energy Access Network\u00a0(GLEAN) from 2017 to 2018, promoting the liaison between academics and industry thought leaders on energy access issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5268,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/5680"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5268"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/5680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25195,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/5680\/revisions\/25195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}