Kevin Tu

Kevin Jianjun Tu is a senior associate working for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he leads the China Energy & Climate Program, and a nonresident research fellow at the Canadian Industrial Energy End-use Data and Analysis Centre. Prior to joining Carnegie, he served from 2004 to early 2011 as senior energy and environmental consultant for M.K. Jaccard and Associates, a premier energy and climate consulting firm in Vancouver. Before moving from China to Canada in 2001, Kevin was the director of marine operations at Shenzhen Sino-Benny, China’s largest LPG importer and distributor. Previous to that, he worked first as technical supervisor and then project manager for Sinopec, a Chinese national petroleum company.

Kevin is an experienced policy advisor and project manager who specializes in operations strategy and policy analysis of coal, oil, gas, and power sectors, and sustainable resource and environmental management. From 2007 to 2009, Kevin has been entrusted by the Canada School of Public Service to advise the Central Party School in Beijing on environment and sustainable development. In 2009, he was appointed by the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED) as the lead consultant of the CCICED Task Force on Sustainable Use of Coal in China.

Kevin holds a Master of Resource Management from Simon Fraser University in Canada, and a Bachelor Chemical and Mechanical Engineering from Zhejiang University in China.

Publications:

• Jianjun Tu, Kevin, Yuhan Zhang and David Livingston. “China Holds Key to Climate Change.” The Diplomat 16 February 2012.
• China Brief, vol.10(22), November 8, 2010, An Economic Assessment of China’s Rare Earth Policy
• China Brief, vol.9(10), May 15, 2009, The Shanxi Coal Mine Blast and the Failure of Safety Governance in China
• China Brief, vol.9(1), January 12, 2009, Future Prospects of China’s Policy on Climate Change
• China Brief, vol.8(19), October 7, 2008, China’s Strategic Petroleum Reserves in Sino-Venezuela Relations
• China Brief, vol.8(14), July 3, 2008, Energy Implications of the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake
• China Brief, vol.8(11), June 6, 2008, Smoke and Mirrors in China’s Oil Statistics
• China Brief, vol.8(7), March 28, 2008, China’s New National Energy Commission and Energy Policy
• China Brief, vol.6(21), May 9, 2007, China’s Botched Coal Statistics
• China Brief, vol.7(1), January 2007, Safety Challenges in China’s Coal Mining Industry
• China, vol.6(4), February 2006, The Strategic Considerations of the Sino-Saudi Oil Deal