Peggy Liu is chairperson of the Joint US-China Collaboration on Clean Energy (JUCCCE) and an internationally recognized expert on China's energy landscape. She was named a Time Magazine Hero of the Environment in 2008, a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader in 2009, the Hillary Institute Laureate of 2010, and an energy adviser to the Clinton Global Initiative in 2008. Prior to JUCCCE, she worked as a venture capitalist, an Internet pioneer, a management consultant at McKinsey, a software product manager, computer programmer, and organic gardener. She is a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and completed a program in Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.