Eric Zusman is a senior policy researcher/area leader at the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies in Hayama, Japan. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Mandarin Chinese from Rutgers University, a dual Master’s Degree in public policy and Asian studies from the University of Texas at Austin, and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles. For much of the past two decades, he has conducted research on environmental issues in Asia. This has included working with China’s Yellow River Conservancy Commission, the Chinese Research Academy on Environmental Science, Woodrow Wilson Center’s China Environment Forum, and Taiwan’s Academia Sinica. He has published books and articles on water scarcity, air pollution regulation, environmental law, multilevel governance, sustainability transitions, low carbon development and the Sustainable Development Goals. He is currently serving as a lead author for the sixth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Chapter 17).