Cao Weiqiu is a positive impact investor and he proposed the idea of an “Ecological Civilization Special District” in 2014. He has 17 years of hands-on experience in investing, venture capital, and private equity markets in emerging sectors. He also has extensive experience in cross-border and cross-discipline consulting and management. He actively advocates, develops, invests in, and serves project teams that have the potential to deliver ecological, social and economic benefits simultaneously.
Cao Weiqiu holds a Master’s degree in Internetworking from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Sweden, and his thesis project was an EU research grant supported project completed at the KTH Internet Research Center. The project resulted in the application of peer-to-peer computing (P2P) technology to Internet multimedia content distribution networks (CDNs). Since 2013, he has been looking into how to use policy, market mechanisms, technology and other tools to solve the problem of regional sustainable economic development, and has developed a unique thought of “ecological civilization special district”. Since 2020, he has been focusing on how to solve climate investment and financing problems through a novel green financial infrastructure. He is currently a master’s tutor in finance at Qilu University of Technology, expert of think tank of Zhejiang Blockchain Technology Application Association, a visiting researcher of Fudan Innovation Research Institute in Zhuhai, a visiting researcher of Green Court Emerging Financial Industry Research Center of Fudan University, a visiting researcher of Green Finance and Sustainable Development Center of University of International Business and Economics, a initiator of Positive Impact Green Climate Industry Investment Fund, and the chairman of Shanghai Mu Yi Investment Advisors Ltd. He used to work as the general consultant of “Zero Carbon” pilot project management in Dongtai, Yancheng City in 2018, speaker of TEDx Sudi “Journey from Diapers to Ecological Civilization Special District”, expert of CBI standard working group of Global Climate Bond Initiative, and senior research and strategic planning officer of United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS).
Cao Weiqiu advocates building the foundation of a new economy through Fintech, big data, Internet of Things, biotechnology, resilient green infrastructure, green financial infrastructure and other digital technological tools, while engaging the private sector in climate change mitigation and adaptation projects in conjunction with policy instruments such as policy-based market mechanisms, active fiscal policy and scalable monetary policy.
