Chai Qimin, the director for strategy and planning in National Center for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation (NCSC), deputy director of Research Center for Green Finance and Sustainable Development in University of International Business and Economics, and guesting professor of Research Center for Contemporary Management in Tsinghua University and Guizhou Institute of Technology. His professional activities and publications focus on global climate governance, new energy policy, green finance and investment, sustainable infrastructure, climate change economics and integrated assessment.

He currently serves as the delegate of Chinese Delegation to UN Climate Negotiations, the advisor for government and market on green development, and he was deeply involved in drafting the Mid-century Long-term Greenhouse Gas Low Emission Development Strategy (Carbon Neutrality 2060), National Carbon Emission Peak Action Plan, Nationally Determined Contribution, 14th Five-year Planning, Green Belt and Road Initiative, energy and green finance policy. He was engaged as the leader or chief scientist of over 60 national and provincial research projects, and have won the Excellent Research Achievement Awards of National Development and Reform Commission, National Energy Administration, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, etc.