Jiang Yong

Dr. Jiang is a staff water and environmental economist at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education in the Netherlands. He previously also worked as researcher, assistant professor, and consultant across academia, government agencies, and international organizations including VU University Amsterdam, Michigan State University, the National Science Foundation of the U.S., and the World Bank. Trained as an applied economist with a Ph.D. degree in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Dr Jiang has background in both science and engineering as well by formal educational training. He has rich experience working at the interface of science, economics and policy, and most of his research work involves quantitative economic modelling and integrated approach to environmental and natural resource management and policy in a multidisciplinary setting. Previous research activities encompass climate change and policy, weather and food security, land use policy, conservation biology, water resource management, integrated assessment of agricultural and environmental policy, and environmental valuation. His scholarly research work has led to publications in leading peer-reviewed professional journals such as Ecological Economics, Environmental and Resource Economics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy, Environmental Science and Policy, and Journal of Environmental Management. At IHE Delft, Dr. Jiang coordinates and teaches water economics, and contributes economics lectures to other courses across Master of Science programs, such as IWRM as a tool for adaptation to climate adaptation, strategic delta and river basin planning, and wetlands for livelihood. He has delivered many capacity building workshops abroad mainly in eastern African countries on ecosystem services assessment and economic valuation. Over the past 3 years, he organized in the Netherlands tailor made training programs on water management for water professionals and administrators from the Water Affairs Bureau of Nanjing, China. In addition, Dr. Jiang also mentors graduate student research in water, climate change, and agriculture and environment related issues in developing countries. His recent interests include economics and governance of nature-based solutions and water and environmental financing through policy and management innovations and capacity building.