CAO MingdeCAO Mingde, Distinguished Professor at China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL), Ph.D of law at China Academy of Social Sciences, Vice President of China Association of Environmental Resources Law Research, member of the Advisory Committee at the Supreme People’s Procuratorate of the P.R.C., Director of Climate Change and Natural Resources Law Research Center at CUPL, legal expert of All China Environment Federation (ACEF). He was a visiting scholar at Pace Law School from 2005 to 2006, Faculty of Law University of British Columbia 2012. He has earned LLM from Vermont Law School, and SJD from Elisabeth Law School at Pace University in U.S. He was honored the National Ten Outstanding Young Jurists Award in China by China Law Society in 2006. His area is environmental law, particularly specializing in energy and climate change law.

Carmen G. Gonzalez is a professor of law at Seattle University School of Law. She has published widely in the areas of international environmental law, human rights and the environment, environmental justice, trade and the environment, and food security. Professor Gonzalez was a Fulbright Scholar in Argentina, a U.S. Supreme Court Fellow, a visiting fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, and a visiting professor at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center in Nanjing, China. She served as the George Soros Visiting Chair at the Central European University School of Public Policy in Budapest, Hungary in Spring 2017 and as the Norton Rose Fulbright Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Houston Law Center in Fall 2017. Professor Gonzalez is member of the Board of Trustees of Earthjustice, and past president of the Environmental Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools. She has worked on environmental law capacity-building projects in Asia, Latin America, and the former Soviet Union, and has represented non-governmental organizations in environmental treaty negotiations. Professor Gonzalez is the co-editor of the highly acclaimed book, Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia (Utah State University Press, 2012). She is also the co-editor of International Environmental Law and the Global South (Cambridge University Press, 2015). Professor Gonzalez holds a BA from Yale University and a JD from Harvard Law School.