Jianping Li, PhD, a full professor at Ocean University of China, Chair of the IUGG Union Commission on Climatic and Environmental Change (CCEC), President of the International Commission of Climate (ICCL)/IAMAS, Fellow of IUGG, Fellow of Royal Meteorological Society, an Affiliate Faculty of University of Hawaii, Executive Editor of Climate Dynamics, and Editor of a number of known climate journals. His major research interests include climate dynamics and climate change, monsoon, air-sea interaction and annular modes. He has published more than 400 peer-reviewed papers, and has edited several books.