Research Scholar, Executive Director & Adjunct Professor
Yale University, USA. 
 

 Dr. Yajie Song is a research scholar of the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, USA. His research stresses social and urban ecosystem studies, natural resource and environmental crisis management, and international and development economics. He has been the Executive Director of the Yale-Tsinghua Environment and Sustainable Development Leadership Program (ESDLP) since 2002. Dr. Song has been also adjunct professor of Lanzhou, Tsinghua, TongjiUniversity, as well as Tianjin University of Technology and Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology in China. He co-initiated Yale-Nanjing (NUIST) Urban Resource and Environment Initiative Research Center, acting as Deputy Director since 2006

Dr. Song, with his colleagues at Yale and in China, initiated the Yale “Special Project for Administrators and Researchers from Key-institutions (SPARK) Project” (1993), the Yale “Sustainable Development Leadership Program (SDLP)” (1996), the Yale-Shanghai Jiaotong University “Industrial Environmental Management (IEM) Seminar” (1996) and the China’s “Western Region Sustainable Leadership Development (WSDLP)” collaborative research with Lanzhou University (1997). He is also one of the founding resource members of the UNEP-Tongji Leadership Program for Environment and Sustainable Development in 2002. Dr. Song was Vice President of International Fund of China’s Environment (IFCE) until 2005. He is co-fonder and President of the Global Institute of Environment & Sustainable Development (GIESD) Inc., an environmental NGO headquartered in the United States. He is member of American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS) and American Economist Association (AEA).

Dr. Song currently conducts researches and development activities at YaleUniversity and in China. He is Yale’s Principle Investigator of Yale University “Collaborative Urban Environmental Crisis Management (UECM) Research in China”; Shenzhen-Dapeng Peninsula Ecosystem Security and UECM Research Project”; Yale’s “Share-holding Integrated Forestry Tenures (SHIFT) System Studies” in Sanming, China, and the Executive Director of  Yale-Tsinghua ESDLP Project as well. He has served as an advisor to the United Nation Development Program (UNDP), the World Bank, the “China Urban Development Report (CUDR)” and many Chinese and international governments and organizations. His publications include the “Urban Environmental Crisis Management UECM” by China Science Press (2008).