Dr. Ma is a Research Fellow of GBIC. He is the Dean and Professor in the School of Environment and Natural Resources at Renmin University of China. He is the leading scholar in China in researching and implementing environmental economics and policies. He has been working extensively with the governments and international agencies on a variety of researches in China, and engaged in the national and international environmental policy making including the environmental finance and taxation, Montreal Protocol for ODS, SO2 emission trading, and water pricing. In the past ten years he has also been working on the institutional reform of environmental administration in China. Prof. Ma serves as senior advisor to the China Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) and a member of the China Council for International Cooperation of Environment and Development (CCICED).