Dapeng Hu, PhD, CFA, Managing Director, Global Head of Aladdin Sustainability Analytics in BlackRock. He is responsible for the research and development of sustainability, climate and energy analytics within Aladdin, BlackRock's portfolio management and enterprise risk management system. Previously Dapeng was a Co-Head of Financial Modeling Group (FMG) and Head of Structured Finance Research and Modeling (SFRM) team. He was responsible for defining and execution of all financial models in Aladdin  with a focus on mortgage modeling, security valuation models, simulation, data science and overall FMG infrastructure and technology. Prior to joining BlackRock in 2003, Dr. Hu was with Wells Fargo as a Director of financial modeling from 2001 - 2003. From 2000 - 2001, he was with Citigroup as Vice President of empirical modeling. From 1998 - 2000, Dr. Hu was a member of the research faculty in the Real Estate Department at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Hu earned a BS degree from Peking University, an MS degree from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.