Lucy (JieQiong) Tong is a climate finance professional. At Tsinghua University’s Center for Global Competence Development, she advanced the university’s global engagement through curriculum design. She worked with China’s Special Envoy on Climate Change, Xie Zhenhua, specialized in climate finance at the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). She now works at the intersection of AI and education. Alongside her professional work, she has fostered cross-cultural and cross-sector collaboration, as part of initiatives such as the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council and IEEE’s Planet Positive 2030.