Dr. Yubing Shi is a Professor and Vice Dean of the South China Sea Institute, School of Law at Xiamen University, China. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of China Oceans Law Review, a peer-reviewed bilingual Journal that has been jointly operated by five universities from China including Chinese Macao, Hong Kong and Taiwan since 2005. Dr Shi received his PhD in law from Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources & Security, University of Wollongong (UOW), Australia in 2014 and served as a lecturer at the Law School of UOW before he joined Xiamen University in 2015. His research interests include international law of the sea and the legal protection of the marine environment. He has published widely on marine environmental law and shipping regulation. His article entitled “Greenhouse Gas Emissions from International Shipping: the Response from China’s Shipping Industry to the Regulatory Initiatives of the International Maritime Organization” was awarded the Gerard Mangone Prize for the best article in the International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law in 2014. He is the author of a monograph entitled “Climate Change and International Shipping: The Regulatory Framework for the Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions” published by Brill Nijhoff in 2017. Dr. Shi is a member and adviser to Chinese Delegation to BBNJ Intergovernmental Conferences held in UN Headquarter in New York.
