Yuetong Guo is a final-year PhD candidate in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London, co-supervised by Dr Tomas Maltby and Dr Francesca Vantaggiato. Her thesis examines the European Commission’s role in shaping the EU’s global climate strategy, focusing on inter-institutional relations and internal decision-making. Using Two-Level Game Theory and a role-based leadership lens, she analyses the Commission’s dual pressures and leader-mediator functions across the EU Maritime ETS, EU Aviation ETS, and CORSIA. During fieldwork in Brussels she is a visiting researcher at ISPOLE, UCLouvain, hosted by Prof Tom Delreux.

Beyond her research, Yuetong’s interests span energy policy, maritime decarbonisation, aviation policy, environmental economics, and ESG investment. She has completed internships across economics, finance, and policy at the Export–Import Bank of China, SDIC Securities, and Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu LLC.

Yuetong holds a BSc in Economics and Finance from the University of Liverpool & XJTLU (2021) and an MSc in Public Policy from the Department of Political Science at University College London (2022).

Office hour

Wednesday: 12.00 - 13.00

Teaching

4SSPP109 Quantitative Methods

4SSPP111 Statistics for Political Science I

6SSPP386 Statistics for Political Science 2

Research interests

• European climate policy
• European Commission
• Inter-institutional relations of EU
• Climate negotiations and decarbonisation
• Transport and maritime policy in the EU
• Multilevel diplomacy
• Game theory
• Maritime decarbonisation
• Aviation policy

Doctoral research

A Unified Stance of the EU: The Role of the European Commission in Shaping the EU’s Global Climate Governance

Supervisors 

Dr Tomas Maltby and Dr Francesca Vantaggiato