Xinyi ‘Vincent’ Gu

Vincent Gu is a postdoctoral research associate for the Center for Global Sustainability at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy. His research focuses on corporate climate commitments, how they can contribute to national and global decarbonization pathways, and ways to incorporate them into integrated assessment modeling. Gu is interested in identifying strategies for public-private cooperation on climate change mitigation and clean technology deployment. He completed his PhD in public policy at Georgia Tech in 2025 and wrote his dissertation on the impact of corporate climate pledges on firms’ supply-chain relationships and political activity. From 2024 to 2025, Gu worked in the U.S. Senate as a Georgia Tech Pathways to Policy fellow, helping formulate climate legislation in the Senate Budget Committee and the Committee on Environment and Public Works. His legislative research covered carbon pricing and border adjustments, industrial decarbonization and green building policy. Gu graduated from the dual BA program between Columbia University and Sciences Po. At Columbia, he received a bachelor’s degree in sustainable development and a concentration in economics. At Sciences Po, he studied international affairs, focusing on Europe and Asia/Indo-Pacific.