Director, Risk Society and Policy Research Center, National Taiwan University. Kuei Tien Chou is a professor at the Graduate Institute of National Development, National Taiwan University (NTU), and director of the Risk Society and Policy Research Center. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Graduate Institute of Sociology, Munich University (1999). He engages in a lot of social and political practices to promote net-zero emissions. His research interests are risk governance, sustainable development, globalization, technological democracy, risk communication, and the East Asia Risk Society. He received the research achievement award of NTU in 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022. His recent contributed books are ‘Sociology of Climate Change - High Carbon Society and its Transformation Challenge’ published by NTU Press in 2017, ‘Energy Transition in East Asia: A Social Scientific Perspective’ published by Routledge in 2018, ‘Climate Change Governance in Asia’ published by Routledge in 2020, and ‘Air Pollution Governance in East Asia’ published by Routledge in 2022.