Jianguo (Jack) Liu
Rachel Carson Chair in Sustainability & University Distinguished Professor
Director, Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability
Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Michigan State University

Jianguo (Jack) Liu is the Rachel Carson Chair in Sustainability and University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife as well as Director of the Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability at Michigan State University (MSU). He has been with MSU since completing his postdoctoral study at Harvard in 1995 (on sabbatical at Stanford from 2001-2002 and guest professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences since 1998). He is keenly interested in integrating ecology with socioeconomics as well as human demography and behavior for understanding and achieving sustainability of biodiversity (e.g., giant pandas) and ecosystem services in China and many other parts of the world. His work has been published in journals such as Nature and Science and has been widely featured in the global media. Dr. Liu has served on various committees and panels, including those of the National Academy of Sciences, NASA, NIH, NSF, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development. His efforts and achievements have been recognized by many awards, including Guggenheim Fellowship Award, CAREER Award of NSF, Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellowship of the Ecological Society of America, Distinguished Service Award of US-IALE, and Teacher-Scholar Award of MSU.