Dayong Zhang is currently a Professor of Financial Economics at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (China). His research interests cover energy finance, climate finance, banking and finance, and general economic and financial issues in emerging economies. He is the president of the Society for the Studies of Climate Finance (SSCF) in China, vice president of International Society for Energy Transition Studies (ISETS), the founding editor of Journal of Climate Finance. He published over 100 articles in peer reviewed journals. He is on the Elsevier's list of China's Most Cited Scholars in 2020 and 2021; and awarded the 2021 Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher in cross-field, 2022 in Economics and Business. Qiang Ji is deputy director of Institute of System Analysis and Management in Institutes of Science and Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISDCAS). He engaged in the research of energy and climate finance, energy strategic management, big data and energy prediction. He is the co-founder of China Energy Finance Network, Vice President of International Societyfor Energy Transition Studies and Society for the Studies of Climate Finance.

He was a founding editor of Journal of Climate Finance. He published more than 150 SCI/SSCI indexed articles in peer-reviewed journals and was selected into Clarivate's List of Highly Cited Researcher in 2021 and 2022, and also the World's Top 2% Scientists List published by Stanford University in 2020 and 2021.Dr. Fei Wu is currently an Associate Professor of Finance at the Research Institute of Economics and Management, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in China. She obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Birmingham. Her research interests include systemic risk and its contagion, financial markets, commodity markets, energy finance, climate finance, and banking.

Her works have been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Energy Economics, Energy, Annals of Operations Research, and Sustainability Science. She has received grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the National Social Science Fund of China.