ABOUT

Jieling Liu, PhD, is the co-founder of NarraTerra. This Singapore-registered sustainability consulting practice applies a systems approach to entities to promote a better understanding of sustainability and support their transformation strategy and implementation.

She is also the author of multiple scientific research papers published in renowned journals, including the Journal of Chinese Governance and Sustainability, as well as reports on disaster risk reduction and urban sustainability for the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction and the World Health Organization. 

Dr Liu is also a consultant for multiple international financial organizations on climate risks, low-carbon development and just transition strategies, including the IFC, KfW, AfD, DEG, ProCredit Holding, and ADB. 

She received her PhD degree, with Distinction and Honor, from the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon, where she received a full scholarship from the National Foundation of Science and Technology during 2016-2020. 

During her PhD, she spent one year as a Visiting Scholar at the Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, founded by Nobel Economics Laureate Elinor Ostrom, where her research focused on the governance of urban green space as a common-pool resource. 

Her PhD research addressed the potential of Nature-based Solutions for climate change mitigation and adaptation in Cities from political science and institutional economics perspectives, with Elinor Ostrom's (Nobel Laureate in Economics) Institutional Analysis and Development framework (IAD) and empirical cases from China. 

Dr Liu grew up in a small rural area in southeast China. As the first university-educated of her family, she had a sharp sense of investigative curiosity and social-environmental responsibility when she experienced severe air pollution in the north of the country. The experience led her to study a master's course on Renewable Energy and, subsequently, a PhD in Climate Change and Sustainable Development Policies. 

Her Master's paper investigated China's state-led approach to energy transition through overseas renewable energy technology acquisition during the 2007-2008 financial crisis. 

She currently lives in Lisbon, Portugal.