Chunqian Jiang is a researcher at the Forestry Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Forestry Sciences. He graduated from the Biology Department of Anhui Normal University in 1986 and stayed at the school to teach. He received a Master of Science from the Shenyang Institute of Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991. He has worked at the Chinese Academy of Forestry since 1991 and received a PhD in forest cultivation from the Chinese Academy of Forestry in 2003. He serves as a member of the United Nations Forum on Forests and the United Nations Climate Change Expert Group on Forestry. His research interests mainly focus on sustainable forest management, forests and climate change, and multi-purpose tree species.