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Xinming Duis a PhD Student in Sustainable Development at the School of International and Public Affairsin Columbia University. She is interested in evaluating environmental policies, by using economics tool to estimate the extent to which these policies actually improve enterprise environmental performance, or enhance environmental quality and health indicators. In particular, she focuses on emission trading schemes, environmental tax, and internal migration in China. She also studies the impact of air pollution and climate change on human system especially on health and human capital.

Xinming holds bachelor degree in Economics and Environmental Engineering honored by Tsinghua University, China. She took internships at UNDP, Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy, the International Council on Clean Transportation, and National Ministry of Environmental Protection in China. She also participated in United Nations Framework Convention of Climate Change and the Stockholm, Basel and Rotterdam Convention as a party delegate. As an ISEP student fellow, Xinming is currently working on the political economy of air pollution.