Zhiren Hu

Biography

Zhiren is a fourth-year Ph.D. student at Cornell SC Johnson College of Business and Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, and he is visiting Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability in 2026-2028 academic years. Before entering graduate school, he earned his bachelor’s degree in geography from Nanjing University, and worked as a predoc researcher at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen). He is an environmental economist, and his research focuses on the economics of ecosystem services and energy transition. Personal Webpage: https://www.zhiren-hu.com/.