Prof. QIN Tianbao is a National Changjiang Youth Scholar and Luojia Distinguished Professor of Law, and serves as the Director of the Research Institute of Environmental Law (RIEL), Professor of China Institute of Boundary and Ocean Studies and the European Studies Centre, Wuhan University; Editor-in-Chief of the Chinese Journal of Environmental Law; Member and Vice Chair of the Compliance Committee of the Nagoya Protocol on ABS.
Prof. Dr. Qin is a Legal Advisor for China’s Ministry of Water Resources and he was a Legislative Expert for the UNEP Division of Environmental Law and Conventions. He is the Vice President & Secretary-General of Chinese Society of Environment and Resources Law (CSERL), a Member of IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law (WCEL), a Member of Governing Board of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law.
Currently, he is concentrating his researches in law and policy concerning biodiversity and biotechnology, water and ocean, climate change and energy, environment and health, and trans-boundary environmental issues. Prof. Qin is author of several books and more than 100 articles in these fields.