Li Gao (Director General of the Department of Climate Change, Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE))

　　Li Gao, Director General of the Department of Climate Change, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Doctor’s degree from Tsinghua University, Master’s degree from both Yale University and Tsinghua University. Since 1997, Li has been engaged in policy research and international cooperation on sustainable development and climate change in China working at The Administrative Center for China Agenda 21 of the Ministry of Science and Technology. Since 2005, Li has participated in the UN climate change international negotiations as one of China’s main negotiators. In 2008, he participated in the establishment of the Climate Change Department of the National Development and Reform Commission. In August 2012, he began to serve as the Deputy Director of the Climate Change Department, and in October 2017, promoted as the Director. After the institutional reform of the State Council in April 2018, Li served as Director of the Climate Change Department of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, responsible for organizing the implementation of the national strategy for active addressing climate change, organizing the formulation of China’s major plans, goals and policies for addressing climate change, organizing participation in the UN international negotiations on climate change, organizing the construction of China national carbon emission trading market, and organizing the implementation of international climate change treaties.