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Jianqiang Liu is a China environmental policy and media expert, author, award-winning senior investigative journalist, and the editor-in-chief of several outstanding media outlets.

Before joining CCCI, Jianqiang Liu worked as China Contributing Editor for Carbon Brief, an online media based in London focusing on climate science and policy. Prior to joining Carbon Brief, Jianqiang Liu worked as China Representative and Beijing Editor of China Dialogue, the first bilingual media focused on China’s environment and climate. He led China Dialogue Beijing Office to play a key role in sparking widespread public discussion of environment and climate issues in China through high-quality coverage. During this period, he co-founded the Chinese Environmental Press Awards with The Guardian, which became the most prestigious environmental press awards in China.

Before that, Liu was a senior investigative reporter with Southern Weekly, China's most influential investigative newspaper. Some of Liu's most reporting, including his exposé on the controversial Tiger Leaping Gorge Dams, his piece on genetically modified rice, and his article on the Summer Palace Lake illegal reconstruction, have all changed the decision-making of the Chinese government.

For his distinguished climate and environmental journalism, he was awarded the 2011 “Green Hero” prize by the SEE-TNC Ecological Awards. His books include Tibetan Environmentalists in China: The King of Dzi (2015), Chinese Research Perspectives on the Environment, Volume 6 (2016), and Chinese Research Perspectives on the Environment, Volume 9 (2019).

Liu holds a M.A. in Journalism from Tsinghua University and a B.A. in Political Science from East China University of Science and Technology.