Julia MAO is the Director of International Cooperation and a researcher at the International Institute of Green Finance (IIGF). Her research focuses on global sustainable finance, biodiversity finance, blue finance, and gender finance-related topics. At the IIGF, she works with research, policy analysis, stakeholder engagement, and project development. She leads index development, database building, report and book drafting work for the research topics mentioned above, and supports research projects on ESG and transition finance. Prior to joining the IIGF, she worked with Lund University Center for Sustainability Studies, Sweden, for UNHCR, and IKEA. With an academic background in both Finance and Sustainability Science, she enjoys working on cross-disciplinary topics in multi-stakeholder environments.