Dr. Kong Chyong is an applied energy economist and policy analyst with a strong background and more than fifteen years of experience applying economics and operational research methods to energy and climate policy questions. Kong graduated from the University of Cambridge with an MPhil in Technology Policy and a PhD in Energy Economics and Policy. His research interests include energy system economics and modelling to understand deep decarbonisation pathways, large-scale power market modelling, economic modelling of global gas and LNG markets, geopolitics and economics of Russian natural gas exports, and Russo-Ukrainian bilateral relations. His PhD topic concerned Russia’s strategic natural gas export policy and Gazprom’s pipeline investment strategy. Before his studies at Cambridge University, Kong was a researcher at the National Academy of Sciences in Ukraine.