Dr Le-Yin Zhang
The Development Planning Unit conducts world-leading research and postgraduate teaching that helps to build the capacity of national governments, local authorities, NGOs, aid agencies and businesses working towards socially just and sustainable development in the global south. We are part of The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment.
Profile
Biography
Le-Yin Zhang has a first degree (BSc in Geography) from the Beijing Normal University and a PhD (in Planning Studies) from the University of London.
Before joining UCL in 1997, She had previously worked on full-time basis for: Zhejiang Institute of Education, PRC; Constance University, Germany; University of Greenwich, UK. She has also served as a consultant for a variety of international organisations and national and local governments.
She is a development economist specialising in economic development and the management of cities. Her publications range from inward foreign direct investment, industrialisation and clustering; Chinese economic reform, the central-local fiscal relationship and economic development in Shanghai; relationships between climate change, industrialisation, the green economy, and city development strategies (see Publications list for full details).
She has teaching, research and consultancy experiences in mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Germany, Egypt, Iran, Ghana, Uganda, Ethiopia, as well as the UK.
Research Summary
I have wide-ranging research interests, covering urbanisation, globalisation, climate change and macro-economic reform and their effects on cities; the role of the state in economic development and global/world city formation; climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies in developing countries in general and their cities in particular.
My current research activities focus on the role of the state in urban low-carbon transitions in China and the UK.
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