Erin Kennedy is a Programme Assistant for the Sustainable Urban Futures programme at the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies as well as an Educational Research Assistant at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. She is also the Earth System Governance Tokyo 2013 Conference Manager, an event organized by the Earth System Governance Project. She holds an MA in development studies from Lund University in Sweden and an MA in Chinese Society, Public Policy and Law from Fudan University in China. Erin is involved with the Low Carbon Campus project at Fudan University where she is a visiting scholar within the Urban Co-Benefits Programme.