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The UK Academy of Social Sciences recently announced its 2019 cohort of newly elected Fellows. CEADs member Professor Dabo Guan was elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS), together with 72 other distinguished scholars and professionals from the United Kingdom, the United States and other countries working in the social sciences and interdisciplinary research. Professor Guan is the only Chinese scholar among the 73 newly elected Fellows. His nomination was supported by Professor Laixiang Sun of the University of Maryland, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, and Lord Neil Ward, Vice-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

The Academy of Social Sciences is made up of UK social science learned societies and related institutions. Its Fellows are leading scholars and professionals with significant influence in the social sciences. The Academy was established to promote the development and innovation of social sciences across disciplines and schools of thought, support academic activities and conferences, and make social science a powerful means of advancing the public good. The Academy currently has 1,313 Fellows, 44 professional societies and more than 90,000 registered members. Professor Guan is among the youngest scholars to receive the title of Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. Over the years, Professor Guan has focused on the causes, impacts and responses to climate change, analyzing the drivers of greenhouse gas emissions and exploring sustainable development pathways for low-carbon and low-resource use at global and national scales. His interdisciplinary work combining natural and social sciences has been widely recognized by the UK social science community. The Fellowship conferment ceremony will be held in London on June 20, 2019.

Professor Guan received his PhD from the University of Leeds in 2007, where he studied under Professor Klaus Hubacek, a leading scholar in ecological economics, and Fellow Laixiang Sun. In recent years, Professor Guan has received wide recognition for his contributions to environmental cooperation between China and the United Kingdom. He is currently working with Academician Keben He of Tsinghua University on an Overseas and Hong Kong-Macau Scholars Collaborative Research Fund project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, formerly the Overseas Distinguished Young Scholars fund. He is also working with Academician Shu Tao of Peking University on research in the field of megacities and human health, jointly funded by UK Research and Innovation and the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

Professor Guan has published more than 130 academic papers in high-impact SCI journals in the international environmental field. He has published more than 30 papers in Nature, Nature portfolio journals and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. A paper by Guan and his collaborators received the Environmental Science & Technology Best Policy Analysis Paper Award in 2007. Guan and his collaborators have received the Leontief Prize three times in different years. A paper published in PNAS in 2014 received the Cozzarelli Prize, recognizing the best PNAS paper of that year. In January 2014, the Leverhulme Trust awarded Professor Guan the Philip Leverhulme Prize for his outstanding academic contributions to environmental economics. Guan was selected as a Lead Author for the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In October 2017, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. In November of the same year, he joined more than ten political leaders and scholars, including former UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christina Figueres, former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew, Lord Nicolas Stern of Brentford, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, Fellow of the Royal Society Andy Haines, Virgin Group founder Richard Branson, and Unilever Chairman Paul Polman, to establish the Rockefeller Global Health Economics Council. Recently, Professor Guan was named to the 2018 list of Highly Cited Researchers, and one of his papers received a 2018 Top 100 Award for the most influential papers globally, ranking 19th.

Professor Guan has also made significant achievements in teaching and talent development. CEADs team members have received many domestic and international academic awards, and several members have published extensively in leading journals such as Nature. The CEADs team welcomes talented researchers to join.