Wei WeiWei Wei received his PhD degree in Botany from the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences and worked on biodiversity conservation, plant genetic resource and biosafety of oraganisms derived from modern biotechnology for nearly two deades. He is now an Associate Professor in the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has led more than 10 state level projects in China and four international joint programmes and published 40 English papers in Science Citation Indexed journals and many others in Chinese language. Dr. Wei also has international work experience; he has worked in several academic institutions oversea in UK, France, USA and Canada. His current interests emphasize on biosafety and now acts as one Executive Secretary of the China Agro-Biotechnology Society. Dr. Wei became an expert member of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group (ATHEG) on Risk Assessment and Risk Management of the Convention on Biological Diversity of the United Nations since 2009. The Secretariat of Convention on Biological Diversity has granted him a commendation letter to acknowledge his contribution in this aspect. He is also an active Commission member of the IUCN SSC Crop Wild Relative Specialist Group since 2013. In April 2018, he became a member of the IUCN Task Force on synthetic biology and biodiversity conservation. He is now working on a thematic policy study on post-2020 global biodiversity Framework. Read More Read Less
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