Dr. Jianchu Xu is a senior scientist of World Agroforestry Centre as well as professor of Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science. Prior to his current position, he was Head of Water and Hazards at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development in Kathmandu. He created and led the Center for Biodiversity and Indigenous Knowledge, a NGO based in Southwest China for working with indigenous people for cultural survival, intercultural dialogues, forest management, land use transition, ecosystem and human health, community-based biodiversity conservation, sustainable livelihood, hydrology and watershed governance. Xu is also a filed traveler with great interest in the Himalayan-Tibetan Plateau and Mekong region. He has expressed the indigenous people’s voices of climate change impacts and local adaptations through his photography. He is an ecologist with an impressive reference list.
