UK Tsinghua Association

Schwarzman Scholars

Date: Tuesday 12 May 2026

Time: 17:00 – 21:00 BST

Chatham House, 10 St James’s Square, London, SW1Y 4LE

David Rennie is a British journalist and senior editor at The Economist. He joined the magazine in 2007 as European Union correspondent and author of the Charlemagne column in Brussels. He later served as British political editor and Bagehot columnist in London, before moving to Washington, DC, where he wrote the Lexington column and served as Washington bureau chief. From 2018 to 2024, he was The Economist’s Beijing bureau chief and author of Chaguan, the magazine’s column on China. He has since returned to London as Geopolitics editor, where he writes The Telegram, a column on geopolitics.

Before joining The Economist, Rennie worked for the Daily Telegraph, with postings in London, Sydney, Beijing, Washington, DC, and Brussels, and was also a contributing editor at The Spectator. His journalism has received major recognition, including the 2010 UACES/Thomson Reuters “Reporting Europe” award and the 2023 Osborn Elliott Prize for Excellence in Journalism on Asia, awarded by the Asia Society to Rennie and Sue-Lin Wong for their coverage of China. He is also co-host, with Alice Su, of Drum Tower, The Economist’s podcast on China.

Professor, Tsinghua University; Chair in Climate Change and Low Carbon Transition, UCL

Dabo Guan is a professor in the Department of Earth System Science at Tsinghua University and holds a Chair in Climate Change and Low Carbon Transition at University College London (UCL), UK. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (FICE) and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS). His research focuses on emissions accounting for international climate-change mitigation, climate-change adaptation, environmental-impact scenario analysis, water-resources accounting and management, input-output modelling, and their applications in both developed and developing countries. His work has received major international recognition, including a 2014 Cozzarelli Prize from PNAS, a Philip Leverhulme Prize, and best-paper awards from Environmental Science & Technology and the International Input-Output Association.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Secretary-General, UKTA; Founder & CEO, Pangura

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yuan Gao is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Pangura Limited, a London-based fintech company built on complex systems science and artificial intelligence. Pangura aims to address the challenges of modern complex systems through agent-based modelling and chaos theory, providing integrated solutions for institutional clients in the financial sector. She has more than ten years of investment and quantitative trading experience in the City of London, spanning both buy-side and sell-side institutions, including Swiss Re, Fidelity International and CICC. She was previously a co-founder of the US technology company N0S.Tech and a Senior Advisor to NetMind.AI, a UK-based artificial intelligence company. 

Yuan holds the Professional Risk Manager (PRM) certification, is a member of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI), and holds securities qualifications recognised by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). She is a Freeman of the City of London, Vice Chairwoman and Secretary-General of the UK Tsinghua Association, Vice President of the Chinese Association of Financial Executives in the UK, and a founding board member of AGI Odyssey, a US non-profit organisation. 

Assistant Director of Global Admissions and Outreach, Schwarzman Scholars