Pei-Hua Yu is pursuing an MBA and MS in Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan, where she explores how analytical and operational tools can drive sustainable growth. She is a Tauber Institute for Global Operations Fellow and previously served on the board of the Energy Club at the Ross School of Business. Her recent work includes data modeling and product strategy at Enact Solar, advising Tata Steel on global growth initiatives, and co-authoring a business school case on supply chain decarbonization.

Prior to Michigan, she was an award-winning journalist focused on Chinese investment and energy transition in Global South countries, breaking underreported stories for the English- and Chinese-speaking worlds. Her reportage elucidating the dynamics in Asia’s frontier and emerging economies triggered vigorous discussions. Her work was published by the South China Morning Post, The People’s Map of Global China, Phoenix Weekly, Energy Observer (China), and Caijing Magazine, among others.

Her independent career from 2020 to 2023 was dedicated to advancing the global coverage of Asian developing countries’ race toward climate and other development goals. She won a Vivian Wu Journalism Award in International Reporting for Myanmar Coup stories published in The Reporter in 2021 and the Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue Media Fellows Competition hosted by the German Agency for International Cooperation in 2020 for a trilingual reporting project concept on Indonesia’s clean energy transition.

From 2017 to 2019 she was the Business Editor-in-Chief of Globus at Caixin Media, an intrepid financial media group that runs the largest subscription-based news service in China. Based out of Beijing, she led a team of reporters to spearhead the coverage of Chinese overseas business, landed impactful exclusive interviews with foreign statesmen, and conducted extensive fieldwork on projects under China’s Belt and Road initiative.

She believes in creating a knowledge-sharing and collaborative culture wherever she goes. Feel free to reach out to her through LinkedIn, Twitter, or the contact form. She speaks English, Mandarin, and basic Burmese. She graduated from The University of Hong Kong with a Master of Journalism and a Bachelor of Arts.