Yuetong is a third-year PhD candidate in public policy research at the Department of Political Economy, co-supervised by Dr Tomas Maltby and Dr Francesca Vantaggiato. Her doctoral project explores the role of the European Commission in shaping the EU's global climate strategies, with a focus on its inter-institutional relations and internal decision-making processes. She utilises the game theory model to better capture the dual pressures faced by the European Commission and the commission’s leadership role both internally within the EU and externally on the global stage. During her fieldwork in Brussels, Yuetong is based at ISPOLE, UC Louvain, as a visiting researcher under the guidance of Professor Tom Delreux.

She is also interested in other political economy topics, such as environmental economics and ESG investment. Beyond academia, Yuetong has gained experience through several internships in the economics, finance, and policy sectors, including at the Export-Import Bank of China, SDIC Securities Co, Ltd, and Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu LLC (DTT).

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).

Teaching

4SSPP109 Quantitative Methods

4SSPP111 Statistics for Political Science I

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

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