CHEN Haiyun

Department:  Public Administration

+86-21-65981040

hychen@tongji.edu.cn

Ph.D, Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Göttingen (Germany), and Visiting Scholar at the University of British Columbia (Canada). He currently serves as Executive President of the Shanghai Society for Sustainable Development, Director of the International ESG Center, Research Fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Development and Management of Tongji University, Guest Professor at the University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (Germany), and Guest Professor at the China International Business Officials Training Base (Shanghai) of the Ministry of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China.

He has presided over numerous research projects, including those funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Shanghai Philosophy and Social Sciences Planning Fund, as well as strategic consulting projects commissioned by local governments and multinational enterprises. He is the recipient of multiple accolades, such as the Decision Consulting Research Achievement Award of the Shanghai Municipal Government and the Excellent Achievement Award in Philosophy and Social Sciences of Shanghai. Additionally, he holds the position of Distinguished Member of the International Economic Advisory Committee to the Mayor of Weihai. He has been frequently invited to participate in the development of global public knowledge products for United Nations agencies, including the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), etc.

• General Coordinator of the Knowledge Sharing Program for the Global Sustainable Development Lighthouse Initiative

(The Lighthouse Initiative is a global knowledge-sharing platform for sustainable development research and practice, co-initiated by experts from international organizations such as UN-Habitat, UNESCO, UNEP, UNDP and the World Bank, as well as scholars from world-renowned universities including Tongji University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Fudan University, Tsinghua University, the University of Hong Kong, the National University of Singapore, the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, the University of Maryland, and the University of Zaragoza (Spain). Enterprises and cities including Tesla, Tourves (France), Santiago (Chile), Zaragoza (Spain), Shanghai, Hong Kong, Weihai, Jianye District of Nanjing, Caocun Town of Rui’an, and Anji County of Huzhou have been honored with the Lighthouse Initiative Best Case Award.)

• Chief Expert of the Research Team for UN-Habitat’s “Shanghai Index” (Global Urban Monitoring Framework – Shanghai AdaptedIndex)

(The Shanghai Index is an internationally authoritative index aligned with the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It is jointly supported by UN-Habitat, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of the People’s Republic of China, and the Shanghai Municipal People’s Government, and co-developed by international experts.)

• Core Expert for the United Nations’ Sustainable Urban Development in the 21st Century: The Shanghai Manual

(This report is jointly compiled by UN-Habitat, the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), and the Shanghai Municipal People’s Government, with support from the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of the People’s Republic of China.)

• Chief Expert of the Research Team for the Global Community Sustainable Development Report: The Weihai Manual

(This report is an international public knowledge product supported by UN-Habitat, guided by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of the People’s Republic of China, implemented by the Weihai Municipal People’s Government, and co-developed with the participation of international experts.)

• Author of Multiple Monographs, including:

1.UN Global Urban Sustainable Development Research: The Shanghai Index;

2.The Shanghai Index from a UN Perspective: Applied Research on Sustainable Development of Megacities in China, the U.S., the UK and Beyond;

3.The Shanghai Index in the Context of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Applied Research on Global Pilot Cities;

4.The Shanghai Index in the Context of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Applied Research on Nearly 100 Cities in Five Major Urban Agglomerations of China;

5.Research on Urban Sustainable Development Indexes Under the SDGs Framework;

6.Sustainable Development and Governance: Theories and Methods of Sustainability Science;

7.Introduction to Sustainable Development: Society, Organizations and Leadership;

8.Sustainable Governance of Public Resources: Theories, Methods and Practices.