HUANG Jikun is Professor at the School of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, and Institute for Global Health and Development, Director of China Center for Agricultural Policy (CCAP), and Director of New Rural Development Research Institute, Peking University. He is also a Fellow of the World Academy of Sciences - for the advancement of science in developing countries (TWAS), Honorary Life Member of the International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE), and Fellow of Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA). His research covers a wide range of issues on agricultural policy, food security and rural development with focus in China. He has been the president of Asian Society of Agricultural Economists (ASAE) since 2017 and vice-president of Chinese Association of Agro-technology Economics since the early 2000s. He currently is also the Specially Invited Talent Pool Expert of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference for Participating in and Deliberating State Affairs, the Expert Advisory Committee Member of the Rural Leading Group Office of the Central Committee of CPC and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and the member of Scientific Group for the United Nations Food Systems Summit-2021. He received his BS degree from Nanjing Agricultural University in 1984 and PhD in agricultural economics from University of the Philippines at Los Banos (UPLB) in 1990. He received Award for China’s Outstanding Youth Scientists in 2002, Outstanding Achievement Award for Overseas Returning Chinese in 2003, Fudan Prize for Eminent Contributors to Management Science in 2008, and IRRI’s Outstanding Alumni Award in 2010. He has published 21 books and more than 560 journal papers, including the papers published in Science, Nature and many leading journals in development economics.