Before joining CISL, Jie spent four and a half years working for the Ellen Macarthur Foundation where she was a core member of the China programme, and later she led Higher Education city demonstrator projects in London, New York and Shanghai. She was also co-author of the ground-breaking report “The Circular Economy Opportunity for Urban and Industrial Innovation in China”, published at World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Tianjin, China (2018).
Jie holds a Master’s in Environmental Science from East China Normal University (2012), a Master’s in Economics and Politics of Energy and Environment from University College London (2016), and currently a MSt candidate of Sustainability Leadership at the University of Cambridge (2020-2022).