Dr. Yansui Liu is a Fellow of the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), Fellow of Geographical Society of China, and the Yangtze River Scholar. He is a Professor of the Institute of Geographic Science and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He serves as Director General of Key Laboratory of Regional Sustainable Development Modeling, CAS, Director of Technology Innovation Centre for Rural Planning and Governance Engineering, Ministry of Natural Resources, Chair of the International Geographical Union Commission on Agriculture Geography and Land Engineering (IGU-AGLE), Chair of the Alliance of Poverty Reduction and Development (ANSO-APRD). He was a member of the expert advisory committee of the State Council’s Leading Group on Poverty Alleviation and Development, and the expert team leader of the Third-party Evaluation of the “Effectiveness of National Targeted Poverty Alleviation”. He also serves as the Associate Editor of journals including Land Use Policy, Scientia Geographica Sinica, and Economic Geography, and a member of editorial board of Science Bulletin, and Geography and Sustainability.

Prof. Liu is mainly engaged in the researches of human and economic geography and has made systematic achievements in many research fields, such as urban-rural transformation and rural regional systems, targeted poverty alleviation and rural revitalization, geographical engineering and human-earth system science, etc. He has presided over 70 projects including National Key R&D Projects, National Science and Technology Support Program, National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has won more than 20 awards such as IGU Distinguished Practice Award, TWAS Prize in Social Sciences, the Second Prize of National S&T Progress Award, the First Prize of Provincial and Ministerial S&T Awards, the National Outstanding Scientific and Technological Worker, National Innovation Award for Poverty Alleviation, and the National Innovation Excellence Prize. He has obtained 16 national invention patents, published 20 books, and more than 580 papers. He has been recognized as one of Most Cited Chinese Researchers in Social Sciences since 2015, and one of Global Highly-Cited Researchers since 2018.