Deputy Director:  

Dr:  Lubiao Zhang

Dr. Lubiao Zhang  

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Institution                   Institute of Agricultural Economics (IAE)

            Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS)

Address                        12 Zhongguancun Nandajie, Beijing, China

            Postcode: 100081

            Phone:   (010)6897 6148(O)  136 0105 8984 (mobile)

            Fax:       (010)6218 7545

            Email:    lubiao@public3.bta.net.cn

Date and Place of birth

            February 1967; Henan Province, China

Sex                        Male

CURRENT POSITIONS:

            Dire  Director & Associate Professor, Center for Sustainable Rural Development, IAE

            Poli   Policy Advisor for:

ü      Ministry of Agriculture (ecological & sustainable agriculture)

ü      Ministry of Water Resource (irrigation management transfer)

ü      State Grain Reserve Administration, and

ü      other 3 prefecture Governments

                        Chinese Coordinator, China SARD Training Program (2000-2005)

                        The World Bank Institute (WBI) / Ministry of Agriculture

            Ex     Executive Members for 

ü      Water-Saving Advisory Committee of CAAS

ü      Academic Committee of IAE;

            Vice Secretary-General for:

ü      Sustainable Agriculture And Rural Development Division of China Association for Sustainable Development; and

ü      Sustainable Agriculture Division of Chinese Association of Agronomy

                        Consultant/resource person for the World Bank, African Development Bank, IFAD, WFP, UNDP, WWF, WCD (among others) and other international consulting companies.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

2001.5 -                         Director, Center for Sustainable Rural Development, CAAS

1999-2001                        Research Coordinator & Associate Professor

                                          Institute of Agricultural Economics, CAAS

 1999        Visiting professor

            Resources For the Future (RFF), USA

1994-98                        Associate Professor

            Institute of Agricultural Economics, CAAS

1997        Visiting Scholar

            Dept. of General Economics, Wageningen University, The Netherlands

1997        Visiting Scholar

            Agricultural Research Organization, Israel

1992-94                        Assistant Professor

            Institute of Agricultural Economics, CAAS

1989-92                        Research Associate

                        College of Economics & Trade, Nanjing Agricultural University

RESEARCH FIELDS

                         Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development; Policy Analysis; Resource Economics; Project Management

EDUCATION

l                  Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics, 1989-1992

            Nanjing Agricultural University,

            Nanjing 210095, Jiangsu Province, China

l                  B.S. in Agricultural Economics, 1983-1987

            Henan Agricultural University,

            Zhengzhou 410005, Henan Province, China

TRAINING

Jul-Aug 1999                        Advanced Environment Economics and Policy Training

                        The World Bank Institute

                        Washington, D.C., USA

 Apr-May 1998                        Environmental Economics Training

                        EEPSEA/IDRC/SEARCA

                               Los Banos, The Philippines

 1995-1997 Sustainable Development Training

                        Leadership for Environment And Development (LEAD) Int’l

                        Costa Rica/Pakistan/Zimbabwe

 July 1992 Sustainable Agricultural Development Training

                        Winrock International

                        Beijing, China

RESEARCH EXPERIENCES

1.                  Project Leader, Efficiency and Distributional Impacts and Policy Analysis of Irrigation Management Transfer in China (2002 – 2004)

National Natural Science Foundation of China

2.                  Project Leader, The development process and prospect of farm management system in China since its reformation and opening-up (2001 – 2003)

            Rural Development Administration, Republic of Korea

3.                  Project Leader, Sustaining Water Users’ Associations: Problems and Policies (2001 – 2002)

Committee on Scholarly Communication with China / Ford Foundation

4.                  Project Leader, A Sustainability Analysis of Community-based Water Harvesting in Tibet (May – September, 2001)

            International Center for Integrated Mountain Development

5.                  Project Leader, Community Participation and Sustainable Water Management: Experiences from Water Harvesting in Western China (2000-2001)

            The World Bank Institute

 6.                  Project Coordinator, "Socio-economic aspects of water management practices for agriculture: the North-China Plain case" (1997-2001)

            Netherlands-Israel Research Programme

 7.                  Participant, "Forestry Land Ownership and Sustainable Forestry Development" (1999-2000)

Rockefeller Foundation of USA

8.                  Project leader, "Township Enterprises Capacity Building and Sustainable Agricultural Development"(1997-1998)

            Ministry of Agriculture of China

9.                  Project leader, "Policy Options for Sustaining Agriculture Development" (1996-2000)

            Ministries of Science and Technology of China

 10.              Project leader,  "Lower Input Effects on Soil Productivity and Soil Nutrient Cycling in Ecological Fragile Areas in China"(1993-1995)

            Winrock International

AWARDS

2000        Robert S. McNamara Fellowships Award

The World Bank

 1999            “Model Managers” Award

Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science

1998            “Model staff” Award

            Institute of Agricultural Economics

1996            Second place award for Ecological Agriculture Research

            Ministry of Agriculture

 1995           First place award for resource economics research

                               China Association of Science and Technology

1995            Received by President Jiang Zemin at the People's Grand Hall

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCES

n                  Member, World Association of Resource and Environmental Economists, 1998- present.

n                  Member, Friends of Nature (1^st environmental NGO in China), 1997- present.

n                  Member, PACE (Professional Association for Chinese Environment), 1998 - present.

n                  Fellow, Leadership for Environment And Development (LEAD) International Co., Cohort 5.

n                  Researcher, EEPSEA.

n                  Member of the Board of Directors of Sustainable agriculture Advisory Committee of MOA, 1998-

n                  Secretary-General in Ecological Development Division of CSEE, 1993- present.

n                  Member of the Board of Directors of Water-saving Agriculture Advisory Committee of CAAS, 1998- present.

OTHER EXPERIENCES

 n                  Consultant (Rural Institution Specialist), IFAD/WFP Northeast Sichuan Integrated Agricultural Development Project, UNOPS, June-July 2001.

n                  Mission Leader & Consultant (Agricultural Economist), Zambia Agriculture Sector Diversification Project, African Development Bank, February-April, 2001.

n                  Consultant (Rural Infrastructure), Ethiopia Irrigation Development Project, M&A Consulting Co. (Hong Kong), March-May, 2000.

n                  Consultant, Hebei II Afforestration Project, GFA (German) Co., November-December, 2000.

n                  Coordinator, Organization Committee for CGIAR “China Day” by IAE / CAAS, May 24, 1999.

n                  Representative fellow of LEAD-China to the International Forum for Youth Scientists and the World Conference on Science, by UNESCO/ISCU, Budapest, 22 June- 1 July 1999.

n                  Resource Person, China Session for LEAD Cohort-7 associates, LEAD International, Xi’An & Yan’An & Beijing, 1998.

n                  Resource person, WWF workshop “Green Economics”, Kunming, July 1999.

n                  Supervisor for postgraduate students in resource & environmental economics at CAAS, 1997 - present.

n                  Co-coordinator, the International Conference on Sustainable Agricultural Technologies, October 8-13 1997, Beijing.

n                  Media interviews (China Radio International, CCTV, BTV, Discovery Channel, China Water Resource, Beijing Review, GTV and other foreign newspapers).

 SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (C for Chinese & E for English)

                  1.                 Zambia Agriculture Sector Diversification Project: Appraisal Report, African Development Bank, March 2001. E

                  2.                  Chinese Agricultural S&T Policy: A Sustainability Analysis (with Jikun Huang), SARD project report, August 2000; C

                  3.                  Annual Report on Economic and Technological Development in Agriculture of IAE (co-editor with Linxiu Zhang), China Agriculture Publishing House, 2000 (forthcoming). C

                  4.                  Adjustment of Agricultural Structure and Poverty Alleviation in Western China, Proceedings of Western Development Research by the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences,  China Agricultural Technology Press, 2000.                                         C

                  5.                  Social Impacts of Large Dams: The China Case (China’s working paper), World Commission for Dams, November 1999;                                 E

                  6.                  Ten Challenges Faced by Developing Countries In Scientific Capacity Building, (with Luis E. Aragón and Andy Ahmad Zaelany), presented at the “WORLD CONFERENCE ON SCIENCE” by UNESCO/ISCU, Budapest, 22 June- 3 July 1999.                                                         E

 7.                  Wetlands Resource Use in the Sanjiang Plain (with Ma Zhong), Research Report, Carnegie Council, 1999.                                                        E

 8.                  Water Management System in the North-China Plain (Research Report), NIRP, 1998. E

 9.                  Stakeholders for Decision-Making: Sustainable Water Management, LEAD International, 1998.                                                                 E

                  10.              The Development of Water User Association in the North-China Plain, paper presented at the World Congress for Resource and Environmental Economists, Venice May 8-13, 1998.                                               E

 11.              Water Pricing Options for Irrigation in North China (Research Paper), Ministry of Water Resource, 1998.                                                C

 12.              Strategies and Policies for Promoting Sustainable Agricultural Development in China (Research Paper), Ministry of Agriculture, 1998.            C                                                                                                                

                  13.              Water Management for Agriculture in the North-China Plain (with Prof. Xigang Zhu), paper presented at the International Conference on Economic Development of the Mainland and Taiwan in the 21st Century, Taibei, 1997.                C

                 14.              Water Pollution Control in China, LEAD Newsletter No. 2 1997.   E

15.              Resource Accounting, Sustainable Development and Policy Reform, Proceedings of 2nd Youth Conference of China Association of Sciences, 1996; C

16.              The Use of Water Pricing in Agriculture in China, China Water Resource, 6(1996): 28-32; C

 17.              "Principles of Sustainable Development", in book Introduction to Sustainable Development Economics, China Social Sciences Press, 1996;           

18.              Sustainable Development Strategy and Policy Reform in Modern Society, Management World, 1(1995):40-46. C

 19.              Property Right Change and Sustainable Resource Management, Economist, 3(1994): 31 –41.         C

 20.              Impacts of Ecotechnology on Agricultural Development: Experiences and Perspectives of Ecovillage in China, in the Ecotechnology and Rural Employment: A Dialogue edited by M.S. Swaminathan, (An International Dialogue Sponsored by M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Madras, India), Macmillan India Limited, 1994; E

 21.              The Mechanism and Benefits of Agricultural Science and Technology Being Transformed into Economy, Agricultural Technological Economics, 4(1993): 14-19; C

22.              NGOs for Agricultural Technological Diffusing in Poor Areas in China (Research Paper), Ford Foundation, USA, September 1993; E

 23.              Sustainable Economic Growth and Sustainable Development: A Conceptual and Theoretical Review, Dynamics  of Economics, 2(1993): 42-48;       C

 24.              On Implications of Sustainable Development Strategy in Agriculture, Agricultural Zoning, 3(1993): 8-12; C

 25.              Sustainable Development in Chinese Agriculture: An Eco-Economic Analysis, Jiangsu People's Press, 1993; C

 26.              Ecological Economic Evaluation Methodology of Ecological Agriculture (Research Series), Rural Economy of Jiangsu Province, 1992; C

 27.              Feature Determination on Coordination between Integrated Ecological Economic Benefits, Ecological Economics, 1(1992): 13-16; C

 28.              Theory and Practices of Sustainable Agricultural Development (Doctoral Dissertation), Nanjing Agricultural University, July 1992; C

 29.              Sustainable Development: The Contribution and Reconsideration of Agricultural Economics, Symposium of Chinese Rural Reform and Development in the 90', Chinese Press of Agricultural Science and Technology, 1992; C

 30.              Lower Input Effects on Soil Productivity and Soil Nutrient Cycling in Ecological Fragile Areas in China (Research Paper), Winrock International, November 1992; E

 31.              Study on the Property Evaluation Indices System of Ecological Agriculture, Ecological Economics, 5(1991): 23-26; C

 32.              Benefit Theory and Evaluation of Ecological Agriculture, Research of Agricultural Modernization, 1(1990): 8-14; C

33.       Sustainable development: the theme of agricultural modernization, Research of Agricultural Modernization, 5(1990): 10-1