Pengyu Zhu is an associate professor in the Division of Public Policy at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is director of the Centre for Applied Economic Social and Environmental Research. Prof. Zhu received his PhD in policy, planning and development from the Sol Price School of Public Policy at University of Southern California in 2011. He was the awardee of the 25th Charles M. Tiebout Prize in Regional Science in 2011 and the Regional Science Springer Prize in 2014. He was also among the world’s top 2% of scientists in 2023 and top 1% in 2024, based on TopResearchersList.com ranking by Elsevier and Stanford University.