Committee on Engineering and the Environment (CEE) - Personnel

Since 2015, Dr. Yong Geng has served as the Dean and Chair Professor at the School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Prior to this, he was a Professor at the Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) from 2008 to 2014.

He also held significant roles as a National Expert for evaluating China’s cleaner production activities at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in 2007 and as an NIES Fellow at the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Japan, from 2007 to 2008. Earlier in the career, was an Associate Professor at Dalian University of Technology (DUT) and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Leipzig, Germany. He Began the academic journey as a Lecturer at DUT and gained industry experience as a Project Manager at Dalian International Trust and Investment Company.

Serving as a National Consultant for UNIDO since 2019 and as Chief Scientist at WFEO-CEE since 2023, he is the lead Author for the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (2018–2022) and the Fifth Assessment Report (2010–2015), focusing on industry-related climate change mitigation.

Additionally, he has been a member of the Journal of Industrial Ecology’s Best Paper Committee (2014–2023) and served as a National Expert for UNIDO’s Resource Efficient Cleaner Production (RECP) project (2012–2016). Other notable roles include being a Visiting Fellow at the United Nations University (UNU) Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS), Japan, and an International Expert for UNCRD’s Regional 3R Forum in the Asia-Pacific Region (2009–2014). He has also led projects such as Shenyang city’s “Environmental Construction Model City” initiative and contributed to UNEP IETC’s eco-town project and China’s national sustainable development demonstration area project.

Contact Dr. Yong Geng at environment @ wfeo . org (without the spaces)

Dr Yunjiang Yu is the Chair Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Director of the Environmental Risk Professional Committee at Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences and Director of the Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution and Health Risk Assessment at Ministry of Ecology and Environment of China.

Dr. Yunjiang Yu is specialized in environmental health risk assessment and control. For many years, he has led the strategic planning for environmental health and played a key role in advancing the field in China.

He has systematically established an exposure monitoring system. To address the challenge of missing toxicity parameters in environmental health risk assessments of new pollutants, he led the development of methodologies for deriving toxicity parameters and established China’s Toxicity Database, which has played a vital role in guiding the country’s efforts to manage new pollutants. These advancements have significantly improved the accuracy and timeliness of pollution-related health risk assessment.

Dr. Yu developed innovative methodologies to manage environmental risks from priority pollutants. He led the research team in developing the standard named Technical Guidance for the assessment of green alternatives, which promotes green substitution of high-risk chemicals in China. He spearheaded the creation of 28 standards encompassing the entire process of investigation, monitoring, assessment, and risk control. These efforts have advanced the standardization of environmental health risk prevention in China.

His work is applied to environmental health policy making of the World Health Organization, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and European Union, etc. He is performing as the Editor in Chief of the international peer-reviewed journal Hygiene and Environmental Health Advances (Elsevier). His research contributes significantly to Sustainable Development Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities.

• Prof. Yue Zhao (SDG 11),
• Prof. Ziyang Lou (SDG 12),
• Prof. Wendong Wei (SDG 13),
• Prof. Meng Li (SDG 14),
• Prof. Bo Zhang (SDG 15)

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• Prof. Meng Li- Secretary General,
• Ms. Hongyu Chen- Secretary

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