Peggy’s superpower is bringing people together across borders and industries to change the world for the better. She works across policy, economic, technical, and spiritual realms.
Peggy Liu has dedicated her life to personal and planetary health. Named the “Green Goddess of China” by the Chinese press and a TIME Hero of the Environment, she is the Chairperson of JUCCE (Joint US-China Collaboration for Clean Energy). JUCCE is an environmental organisation that has been at the heart of the greening of China since 2007.
Peggy advises global companies and governments on how to catalyse societal-scale change, scale sustainable innovation, and collaborate with China.
Peggy is a distinguished professor at theChina Academy of Governance, a lecturer at the China Executive Leadership Academy of Pudong, and the National Academy for Mayors of China. She is a board member of Project Drawdown, an advisor to the FTSE Environmental Markets Committee, EAT Forum and Volans, and a Governor of the Hillary Institute. She is a thought leader at the Criticaleye CEO network. She served as an executive advisor to Marks & Spencer, an advisor to PWC China, a sustainability advisor to HP, a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Councils on Sustainable Consumption (2012-13) and on New Energy Architecture (2011-12), and an energy adviser to the Clinton Global Initiative in 2008. She is a recurring judge for The Circulars at Davos (circular economy) and the Hult Prize (social entrepreneurship at the college level).
Prior to JUCCCE, she was an early-stage venture capitalist in Shanghai. In the 1990s Peggy was recognised as an Internet pioneer on the cover of ‘Red Herring Hits’. She headed Channel A, one of the earliest e-commerce companies in Silicon Valley. Other executive positions in Silicon Valley included General Manager of Consumer Applications at Zaplet, a dynamic email communications platform, and VP of Marketing at SeeUthere.com. Peggy also served as a management consultant at McKinsey, a product manager for Internet Chameleon – the first Windows software that used a graphical user interface to surf the Internet – a product manager for…
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