Pre-recorded discussion featuring Chris Nielsen (Executive Director, the Harvard-China Project on Energy, Economy, and Environment) and Judith Shapiro (Director, The Masters in Natural Resources and Sustainable Development, School of International Service at American University), moderated by Jennifer Turner (Director, the Wilson Center's China Environment Forum).

Chris Nielsen is Executive Director of the Harvard-China Project on Energy, Economy, and Environment, where he develops multidisciplinary research collaborations of faculty, researchers and students across schools of Harvard University and a number of Chinese universities. As a researcher, he is a co-editor and co-author of three books on China’s environment, including Clearer Skies over China (MIT Press 2013), and a co-author of over 100 refereed articles in atmospheric science, renewable energy, power systems, urban transportation, environmental health, economics and policy.

Judith Shapiro is the Director of the Masters in Natural Resources and Sustainable Development at the School of International Service at American University. She was one of the first Americans to teach in China after U.S.-China relations were normalized in 1979. She is the author or co-author of numerous books on China, among them China Goes Green: Coercive Environmentalism for a Troubled Planet, China’s Environmental Challenges, Mao’s War against Nature and Son of the Revolution.

Jennifer Turner has served as Director of the Wilson Center’s China Environment Forum for nearly two decades. She is a widely-quoted expert on U.S.-China environmental cooperation as well as climate-related challenges and governance issues facing the world’s most populous country. As head of the Center’s Global Choke Point multimedia reporting initiative, Turner's work combines on-the-ground research with visual storytelling. She has convened water-energy-food nexus dialogues in China, India, Mexico, South Africa, and the U.S. and blogs for the Center’s New Security Beat.