Fan Yi is an associate professor in the Department of Real Estate, Business School, National University of Singapore. Her research focuses on social sustainability and environmental sustainability. Her work has been published at leading international journals, such as Nature Climate Change, Nature Cities, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Review of Finance, Journal of Urban Economics, Applied Energy, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Journal of Regional Science, China Economic Review. Her opinions have been circulated by international and national organizations, such as World Bank, United Nations, and Ministry of National Development Singapore. Her work has been widely featured by international and local media, such as The Economist, VoxChina, Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, Straits Times, and Channel News Asia. She obtained her PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2015.