Dr. Christoph NEDOPIL is Associate Professor of Practice in Economics and Director of the Green Finance &Development Center at the Fanhai International School of Finance (FISF), Fudan University. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Central University ofFinance and Economics (CUFE) in Beijing, China, and a Visiting Faculty atSingapore Management University (SMU).

Christoph regularly contributes to policies, strategies and advisory services to accelerate the application of sustainable finance for governments, financial institutions, enterprises and civil society. He works with the China Council for International Cooperation onEnvironment and Development (CCICED), the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, as well as various private and multilateral finance institutions (e.g. ADB, IFC, UNES CAP) and international governments. He is the lead author of the UNDP SDGFinance Taxonomy, the Green Development Guidance Baseline Study of the BRIGreen Development Coalition under the Chinese Ministry of Ecology andEnvironment, and has further authored four books, dozens of articles, and research reports. Christoph is also serving as board director and supports various companies in scaling sustainability in businesses and finance.

Christoph is quoted regularly in Bloomberg, Financial Times, SCMP and on national television in Germany, China, Singapore.and the US.

Before joining FISF, he served as Director for the IIGF Green BRI Center in Beijing, as Director for the Sino-GermanCooperation on Sustainable Transport in Beijing, and worked in over 15countries with the World Bank. He also founded and sold two companies in tech and innovation in Germany’s startup capital Berlin.

Christoph holds a Master of Engineering and a PhD in Economics from the Technical University Berlin, as well as a Master ofPublic Administration from Harvard Kennedy School.