Dr. Du Huanzheng was appointed as our independent non-executive Director on 19 December 2019. From 1984 to August 2013, Dr. Du successively served as a lecturer, associate professor and professor presenting economics, circular economy and statistics related at Jiaxing College (嘉興學院) and became its vice president in April 2003. Since July 2014, Dr. Du has been serving as a professor at Tongji University (同濟大學) where he was primarily responsible for circular economy related teaching and research work. Since March 2018, Dr. Du has been a doctoral supervisor and professor of United Nations Environment Program – Tongji Institute of Environment for Sustainable Development (聯合國環境署－同濟大學環境與可持續發展學院) at Tongji University, where he has been primarily responsible for circular economy related courses teaching and research work. Dr. Du is also a director of Circular Economy Research Institute (循環經濟研究所) at Tongji University.
Dr. Du is a member of the Expert Consultant Committee of the Inter-Ministerial Joint Conference on the Development of Circular Economy of NDRC (國家發改委發展循環經濟工作部際聯席會議專家諮詢委員會), a vice director of Environmental Management Committee of Society of Management Science of China (中國管理科學學會環境管理專業委員會), an expert of China Association of Circular Economy (中國循環經濟協會) and a member of the Investment and Financing Expert Committee of China Association of Circular Economy (中國循環經濟協會投融資專家委員會). Dr. Du has led various national and provincial research projects in the circular economy field. Dr. Du was selected as a finalist for The Circulars 2019, the world’s premier circular economy award program, in the Leadership Category in March 2019.
Dr. Du received his bachelor’s degree in economy in July 1984 and his master’s degree in economy in July 1996 from Renmin University of China (中國人民大學) in the PRC. He also received his doctor’s degree of philosophy from University of Tsukuba in Japan in January 2012.
