Vol. II · No. 26 · Spring Issue
The Jialong Wang Review
New York ·
A personal index, cover story →

Capital,
carefully
considered.

I study how capital moves toward the climate transition — the mechanisms, the incentives, and the stories we tell about risk. Before Columbia, I read behavioral science and psychology at Duke and Duke Kunshan, where I learned to take human behavior seriously as a unit of analysis. On the good days I'm also a photographer.

Cover Story · 01
By J. Wang

A 200 megawatt wind farm, sculpted to the cent.

You build a model. You run ten thousand sensitivities. You still need to decide. The project I worked on last spring had a coverage ratio that drifted south by 0.04× every time I tightened the PPA floor — which is to say, the spreadsheet was telling me what I already suspected: no amount of tax equity structuring would out-argue a bad resource year.

This is what I like about the work. The numbers eventually run out of answers, and you are left, as always, with a judgment.

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Selected work

08 entries · 2022 – 2026

Writing

Notes on finance, politics, being
01

A capstone, in three conference rooms

In January none of us had seen a qubit. In April we were the ones explaining them.

Apr 2026 · 8 min
02

What a wind farm taught me about certainty

You build a model. You run 10,000 sensitivities. You still need to decide.

Apr 2026 · 7 min
03

Blended finance is a grammar, not a product

The deal's structure tells a story about who is trusted, who is guaranteed, and who absorbs the first loss.

Feb 2026 · 11 min

Section · Lab

github.com/Waaangjl
A brief curriculum

The long way around.

I trained as a behavioral scientist — four years of facing a messy human situation and asking: what exactly is going on here, and what do we mean by "going on"?

That same question turned out to be right for project finance, too. A pro-forma is a disguised argument about the future, and the assumptions are the footnotes.

Chronology
2024–now
Columbia SIPA
MPA (STEM) — Energy Finance & Sustainable Investment
Jan – Apr 2026
Wood Mackenzie × SIPA
Capstone — Quantum Computing in the Global Energy Landscape
Sep 2025 – Jan 2026
Columbia Climate School
TA — International Climate Finance (CLMTC 5052)
Jun – Aug 2025
Silver Leaf Partners
Sustainable Finance Summer Intern
2020–24
Duke Kunshan × Duke
B.S. Behavioral Science / Psychology · Cum Laude (dual degree with Duke Interdisc. Studies)

Now

Updated this week · Apr 2026
reading
The Value of a Whale — Adrienne Buller
building
A small R package for debt-sculpting sensitivity runs
listening
Caroline Shaw — Partita for 8 Voices
learning
Tennis. Slowly. With great enthusiasm.
thinking
Blended finance for emerging-market adaptation