Co-Chair
B. Larry Li, University of California, Riverside, USA
Educated in China, B. Larry Li is Professor of Ecology and Directors of International Center for Ecology and Sustainability, and U.S.
Department of Agriculture-China MOST Joint Research Center for AgroEcology and Sustainability at University of California-Riverside with a broad interdisciplinary background and experience in mathematical, statistical and computational modeling applications in ecological and environmental studies. He published more than 310 refereed journal articles, 30 book chapters and proceedings papers, and 11 books or edited special issues. Among his many honors and awards, he was elected to be Honorary Member of the Scientific Council of Russian Academy of Sciences (2005), IHE Fellow (1988), AAAS Fellow (2006), DeTao Master of Ecology (2013), Honorary Director-General of the Three Gorges Institute of Ecology and the Environment (Chinese Academy of Sciences) (2018), and received 2015 Prigogine Gold Medal (only one leading scientist per year to be awarded in ecological systems internationally), and 2022 CAST-USA Excellence Outstanding Innovation Award in New York, USA. He is also Founding Editor-in-Chief of two international journals: Ecological Complexity (Elsevier) and Journal of Arid Land (Springer Nature). He chaired and co-chaired the successful EcoSummit 2007 in Beijing, China, EcoSummit 2012 in Columbus, Ohio and EcoSummit 2023 in Gold Coast, Australia. He has been chairing the EcoSummit Governing Board since 2016.
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