Jie Pan

Jie Pan is currently an Environmental Specialist at the World Bank. There, she provides technical inputs to the safeguards instruments of one energy sector IBRD/AIIB investment project, one IBRD/IFC finance sector investment project, and one regional project focusing on occupational, community health and safety. She also supports the preparation of two Green Growth development policy lending projects in Vietnam and in Laos, two Montreal Protocol projects in China and the Philippines,two analytical projects, and one REDD plus project in Fiji.

She graduated with a Master's of Environment Management from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies in 2015. Her academic interests center on industrial ecology and the nexus of business and natural resources. Over the summer, she worked as an EDF Climate Corps Fellow at TD Bank in New York City. During her Fellowship, she worked closely with TD Bank’s first Head of Environment Diana Glassman and the extended TD Bank environment team to develop a Roadmap for Environmental Employee Engagement in a business setting. She worked as a Research Assistant at Yale Center for Business and the Environment.

Jie worked for the Ministry of Environment Protection in China from 2009-2010 as a project officer overseeing the implementation of a World Bank project to phase out two persistent organic termiticides. In early 2011, Jie relocated to Washington DC to work as a Junior Professional Associate for the Global Environment Facility, the largest public fund for the environment. There she reviewed project proposals from more than 50 developing countries covering almost all aspects of chemicals pollution reduction and assisted partner UN agencies in developing some of them. Before attending Yale, she worked as an international consultant for United Nations Industrial Development Organization, developing projects to inventory the production, application, and emission of 11 persistent organic pollutants under the Stockholm Convention.