Prof. Christoph NEDOPIL WANG

Prof. Christoph NEDOPIL WANG is a member of the Belt and Road Initiative Green Coalition (BRIGC) of the Chinese Ministry of Ecology and Environment. He has contributed to policies and provide dresearch /consulting amongst others for the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED), the Ministry of Commerce, various private and multilateral finance institutions (e.g. ADB, IFC, as wellas multilateral institutions (e.g. UNDP, UNESCAP) and international governments. Christoph holds a master of engineering from the Technical University Berlin, a master of public administration from Harvard Kennedy School, as well as a PhD in Economics. He has extensive experience in finance,sustainability, innovation, and infrastructure, having worked for the International Finance Corporation (IFC) for almost 10 years and being a Director for the Sino-German Sustainable Transport Project with the German Cooperation Agency GIZ in Beijing.

Green Finance represents the future of the financial sector through innovative financial mechanisms and by supporting the investments in projects with positive and sustainable externalities.

It is a blossoming market, presently, the European Central Bank holds around 20% of all euro-denominated green debt, eventhough it only started buying corporate bonds as recently as 2016, which indicates that the bank sees this as a way to further its own green agenda. The green bond market could be worth $2.36 trillion by 2023.

It is regarded as away of meeting the needs of environmentalism and capitalism simultaneously –but what is green finance and how does it work？To help learners discover in this specificarea, on 28th August, 2021, Fanhai International School of Finance, Fudan University will host the Master Class：Green Finance and will explore ways how green finance can help to achieve global climate targets.