Chief Economist, Bureau of Economic Geology, UT Austin
Dr. Ning Lin is the chief economist at Bureau of Economic Geology at UT Austin. With 15 years of experience in commercial investment and capital projects in natural gas and chemicals across the US and Asia, Dr. Lin has held key roles at Shell Trading, Koch Industries, and Tenaska. Her recent research focuses on hydrogen, particularly in geological storage and downstream applications like low-carbon ammonia and agriculture. She is part of the GeoH2 industrial consortium, and leads the HyFive initiative, an online platform designed to screen and estimate commercially viable hydrogen storage integrated with existing infrastructure.