YURONG YU

PhD candidate in Environmental Policy Research, Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London
Chinese living in London and Beijing
Yurong is a PhD candidate at Imperial College. She was originally trained to be a social scientist and an economist in Beijing, China. After her master’s at Columbia University, and internship with WWF Beijing and Wildlife Conservation Society NY, she shifted her interest to wildlife conservation. Yurong’s PhD focuses on investigating how transportation infrastructures pose potential risks to regional biodiversity on a global scale. The overall goal is to create a new evidence-based way of assessing the impacts and then develop a global wildlife conservation policy framework.