Prof. Qin Tianbao is a National Changjiang (Cheung Kong) Scholar and Luojia Distinguished Professor of Law. He is the Director of the Research Institute of Environmental Law (RIEL), Deputy Director of the Research Centre of the Supreme Court of China on Environmental-related Judicial Theory, Professor of the China Institute of Boundary and Ocean Studies and the European Studies Centre, Wuhan University; Editor-in-Chief of the Chinese Journal of Environmental Law (Brill); Member and Vice Chair of the Compliance Committee of the Nagoya Protocol on ABS. He was Vice Dean for the School of Law and was Deputy Chief Judge of the Environmental Chamber of the Supreme Court of China.