Xunpeng (Roc) Shi is Principal Research Fellow at the Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology Sydney. He is an advisor to Global Gas Center (GGC), APEC Sustainable Energy Center (APSEC), and Energy Division of UN ESCAP, Distinguished Research Fellow at the Yangtze River Industrial Economic Research Institute at Nanjing University, a Visiting Professor at Hubei University of Economics, and a Council Member of the “Chinese Economics Society Australia” (CESA) and was its President in 2016-2018. In 2020, The Australian named him as the Top 250 Researchers in Australia and the field leader in Environmental Law and Policy. His research interests cover the full spectrum of energy issues including fossil fuels, renewable and climate change. His areas of expertise include environmental and energy economics, sustainable development and the Chinese economy, with sectoral focuses on coal, natural gas and renewables and regional focuses on Australia, ASEAN, and Northeast Asia.