Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Academic Development)
Professor, Chair of Global Sustainability
The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Peng Gong is Chair Professor of global sustainability and Vice President for Academic Development, University of Hong Kong. He was professor and Chair of the Department of Earth System Science, Dean of School of Sciences, at Tsinghua University (Beijing, China). In 2001, he became a full professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at the University of California, Berkeley (CA, USA). In 2000, he founded the International Institute for Earth System Science at Nanjing University (China) and in 2004, he served as the founding director of the State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science.

His major research interests include mapping and monitoring of global environmental change, and modelling of environmentally related infectious diseases such as schistosomiasis, avian influenza, dengue, and COVID-19, and healthy cities.

He is the author/co-author of over 600 articles and 10 books. He chaired/co-chaired 9 research reports on climate change and health and healthy cities in China. Internationally, he has served as a member of the Earth League, the Future Earth Advisory Committee, the Earth Commission, and the Publishing Committee of the American Geophysical Union. He is also a member of the editorial board or advisory group of more than 10 international publications including the Lancet.