Yixian Sun is an Assistant Professor in International Development at the University of Bath, UK. He studies transnational governance, environmental politics, and sustainable development in the Global South. His research seeks to explain whether and how different types of governance initiatives can help emerging economies, China in particular, achieve sustainability transitions. Yixian’s work was published in Ecological Economics, Global Environmental Politics, and the Review of International Political Economy. Using survey experiments, he also studies the political economy of global food system transitions and his research in this area was appeared in Nature Food.
Yixian has started several projects on the sustainability governance of China’s oversea investment and development cooperation. With colleagues at ISEP, he plans to conduct in-depth research on the impact of China’s Belt of Road Initiative in different developing contexts. As an ISEP fellow, Yixian’s work contributes to better understanding on the global governance of energy and the environment, the nexus of energy and food, and the impacts of China’s Belt and Road Initiative.