Director of the Asia Energy and Sustainability Initiative
Harvard Kennedy school
Professor Edward Cunningham is the Director of the Ash Center China Programs, as well as the Asia Energy and Sustainability Initiative at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
His work focuses primarily on China’s integration into the world economy through its energy and environmental markets, philanthropic sector, and international trade.
Edward also advises private and publicly listed companies, investment banks, and venture/PE funds focusing largely on energy and environmental technologies, infrastructure assets, education technologies, and financial and technology-enabled services.
He first lived in China in 1992, speaks Mandarin and Italian, and his work has appeared in media such as The New York Times, The Financial Times, The New Yorker, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fortune, NPR, PBS, ABC, Bloomberg and a range of Chinese outlets.
He studied at Peking University and later at Tsinghua University as a Fulbright Fellow, graduated from Georgetown University, received an A.M. from Harvard University, and holds a Ph.D. from M.I.T.