Wei-Ta Fang was born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan on February 14, 1966. He received a BA degree in Land Economics and Administration from National Taipei University (Taipei, Taiwan) in 1989. He received his first master's degree in Environmental Planning (MEP) from Arizona State University, USA in 1994, and a second master's degree in Landscape Architecture in Design studies (MDes.S.) from the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, USA in 2001. He obtained a PhD from the Department of Ecosystem Science & Management, Texas A&M University, USA in 2005. He served as a specialist in the Taipei Land Management Bureau in 1991 and 1992 and a senior specialist in-charge of environmental education and environmental impact assessments (EIAs) at Taiwan's Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) Headquarters from 1994 to 2006. Dr. Fang was also the Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) for the National Environmental Literacy Survey in Taiwan during 2012 and 2020. He is currently serving as a Distinguished Professor as the Director of the Graduate Institute of Environmental Education, National Taiwan Normal University and is the President of the Society of Wetland Scientists Asia Chapter. He lives in Taipei City with his wife, Chia-Ying Ho, and two sons, Cheng-Jun (June) and Cheng-Shun (Sam). His contact e-mail is wawaf@hotmail.com.