Kiang C.S.
Dean, College of Environmental Science
Peking University

Professor C. S. Kiang received a B.S. in Physics from National Taiwan University and PhD in physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology (GIT). Dr. Kiang returned to GIT in 1978 from the National Center of Atmospheric Research (NCAR), where he served as the Head of the Atmospheric Aerosol Project. At GIT, Dr. Kiang developed the Atmospheric Sciences program within the School of Geophysical Sciences and served as the Director of the School from 1981 to 1988. The School recently has been rated as one of the best and the most influential School in the United States.

Since 1988, Dr.Kiang has served as one of six Institute Professors at GIT, and he has been responsible for the development of the Environment Science, Engineering and Policy program. He served as the first Director of the Office of Environment Science, Technology and Policy of Georgia Tech in 1991. The Environmental Sciences and Engineering program has been rated as one of the top five programs in US. The largest new campus building of Environmental Sciences and Engineering was completed in 2002, which hosts the environmentally related academic, research and economic development (incubators) programs at GIT.

AT NCAR, Professor Kiang founded the Global Atmospheric Measurement Experiment of Tropospheric Aerosols and Gases (GAMETAG). The GAMETAG became the founding program for the establishment of Atmospheric Chemistry Program at the US National Sciences Foundation and the scientific base of the Global Troposphere Experiment (GTE) program at NASA. These programs became the key bases for Atmospheric Chemistry Aircraft Measurement programs in the US.

Professor Kiang is the founding Director of the Southern Oxidant Study (SOS) (1988-present), a strategic alliance of government agencies, national laboratories, academic institutes and private industries to study the air quality of the southern region of the US. The SOS policy relevant research program has significant impact on the US Air Quality Management System. SOS has provided a new paradigm for troposphere ozone management system in the US. The success of SOS is based on its basic policy relevant scientific research approach and its strategic alliance of public and private sectors. The North American Research Strategy for Tropospheric Ozone (NARSTO), a derivative of SOS (Southern Oxidants Studies) was conceived and founded in 1994.

Professor Kiang has been the Sigma Xi National Lecturer (1982-1983) and Chautauqua Lecturer (1981), and he has published more than hundred professional articles and given more than couple hundreds public speeches.

Throughout his academic career, Dr. Kiang has played a very active role in assisting China in the development of a modern and sustainable economy. He accompanied the first official Chinese Meteorological Delegation visiting the US in 1975, and was invited as the Foreign Expert by the Chinese State Meteorological Administration in 1980. He has served as board Member of China Technology and Science Advisor to Jiangsu Province, Economic Advisor to Changzhou in Jiangsu Province, Guest Professor at Peking University, member of the National Academy of Sciences' Panel for the Study of Global Climate Change in China, Chairman of the International Conference on Global and Regional Environmental Atmospheric Chemistry in Beijing (1989). Also, Professor Kiang has served as the Chairman of the “Sustainable Development” Conference for the University System of Georgia, 1988 and Vice Chairman of the Academic Committee for the Shanghai Symposium on Sustainable Development for the 21st Century (2000, 2002, and 2004). in December 2001, he served as the session chairman of the “System Reform” in the “Sustainable Western Region Development International Symposium”. Starting from 2003, Dr. Kiang has served as member of the Steering Committee of the Global Water Partnership. Last summer, he was invited to the Tallberg Forum.

Dr. Kiang has served as an advisor to US companies entering China since China established its open door policy in the late 1970s. In 1985, he assisted BellSouth in organizing the first Sino-American Telecommunications Conference in the Great Hall of People in Beijing. Dr. Kiang has helped the State of Georgia and the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce organized several business missions to China and Hong Kong.

The companies that Dr. Kiang has assisted include: Wilma International, Intercolor, Seaboard Investment Company, the Mississippi Advanced Technology Institute, BellSouth, Milliken, Ritz-Carlton, Broadwater & Associates, Euroseek, Interface Flooring, and Georgia-Pacific.

In June of 2000, the China Foreign Expert Bureau invited Dr. Kiang to lead a delegation of six US experts to provide comments and suggestions to the Beijing "Blue Sky" Project. From March 2001 to April 2003, Dr. Kiang served as a member of the US congressionally mandated National Research Council Committee on Air Quality Management, tasked with reviewing and assessing the entire air quality management system in the US. Between 2002 and 2004, Dr. Kiang worked with Civic Exchange (a Hong Kong-based non-profit public policy think tank), Peking University, Hong Kong University for Sciences and Technology, Hong Kong Polytechnology University and GIT to develop a 2-year Pearl River Delta Regional Air Quality Pilot Study as well as other studies. These regional studies are in the processes to be integrated as part of Integrated Water Resource Management Center to be established at Peking University.

Professor Kiang has served as the Founding Dean of the newly established College of Environmental Sciences at Peking University since June 18, 2002. His vision to build a “Chinese Characteristics, World Impact” College of Environmental Sciences at Peking University will set up the basic infrastructure for the development of human resources of the next century leadership in sustainable development.

Recently, Professor Kiang is working with Professor Wang Jisi, Dean of College of International Affairs at Peking University to establish a Center of Northeast Asia for Peace, Security Sustainability initiated by Maurice Strong.