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Dr. Lu is currently a Visiting Scholar with the California-China Climate Institute at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. LU is director of SEE Foundation, she leads the Climate Change and Business Sustainability team to promote projects such as the green supply chain action, energy transition in rural China, corporate carbon neutrality initiatives, environmental governance and waste management, with an aim to bring together the best of businesses and NGOs to reduce pollution and carbon emissions and to improve the environment. Zhiyao received her PhD in Ethnoecology from a joint-doctoral program with Minzu University of China and Yale University, she was a visiting scholar at Columbia University, UC Berkeley, and New York Botanical Garden, and got her B.S. from Ocean University of China. Zhiyao spent years on ecological research, especially the relationships between environment, traditional culture and the ethnic minority groups in China, and have published several academic articles. She is the Chinese Representative of Homeward Bound Project, a global female scientists leadership training and Antarctic expedition project. She is also a co-author of book The Selves We Choose, the chief editor of book Carbon Neutral Action - Environmental Philanthropy for Climate Governances, and a TEDx speaker.