Ye QI is Chair Professor of the Thrust of Carbon Neutrality and Climate Change at the Hong Kong University Science and Technology (Guangzhou) and Professor of Environmental Policy and Management at Tsinghua University’s School of Public Policy and Management. From April 2014 to January 2019, he was Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and the Director of Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy. He was appointed as Cheung Kong Professor of Environmental Science at Beijing Normal University from 2002 to 2005. Before returning to China in 2003, he taught ecosystem management and climate change science at the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1996 to 2003. Ye Qi received his PhD in Environmental Science in 1994, jointly awarded by the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry and Syracuse University.