On July 16, 2019, at 15:00, Professor D’Maris Coffman was invited to give an academic report entitled "A Reversal of Fortune? The UK, China and the Fifth Industrial Revolution?". This report was hosted by Dr. Meng Shen, many teachers and students attended the report.
 

　　Dr. D’Maris Coffman joined UCL in September 2014 as a Senior Lecturer in Economics and Finance of the Built Environment at CPM here at UCL Bartlett. In February 2017, she was appointed Interim Director (Head of Department) of BSCPM. In late January 2018, she was appointed to a professorial chair in Economics and Finance of the Built Environment with effect from March 2018. Before coming to UCL, she spent six years as a fellow of Newnham College where she variously held a junior research fellowship (Mary Bateson Research Fellowship), a post as a college lecturer and teaching fellow, and a Leverhulme ECF. In July 2009, she started the Centre for Financial History, which she directed through December 2014. It is still going strong, but has moved from Newnham College to Darwin College in line with the affiliation of its new director. She did her undergraduate training at the Wharton School in managerial and financial economics and her PhD in the School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. While at Penn, her doctoral research in the UK was funded in part by the Mellon Foundation under the guise of an IHR pre-doctoral fellowship and an SSRC international dissertation fellowship. Professor Coffman’s research interests span infrastructure, construction, real estate and climate change.
　　In today's report, Prof. Coffman focused on issues related to China becoming the leader of the fifth industrial revolution, combining the decarburization of energy, transportation and construction. The report looks at the concept of the continuous wave of industrialization from the end of the 18th century to the beginning of the 21st century, taking into account the contours of the next industrial revolution and considering the challenges of decarburization in various value chains around the world rather than focusing on technology as before. At the end of the report, Professor D’Maris Coffman took a group photo with everyone.