Chen Liu is a senior researcher at the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) in Japan. She earned a PhD in Biosphere Informatics from Kyoto University in Japan, worked as a researcher at the National Institute for Environmental Studies ((NIES; 2001-2009) and an Associate Professor in Nagoya University Graduate School of Environmental Studies (2010-2014) in Japan before joining IGES. Her current research topic is mainly on 3R policy, sustainable municipal solid waste management, zero waste society, food waste, circular food system, and good practices in Sustainable Consumption and Production and Sound Material-Cycle Society in Asian countries.