Mr Lifeng LI is the Director of the Land and Water Division at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). He oversees FAO’s work on soils, land, water, geospatial technologies, and climate financing through partnership with the Adaptation Fund. He serves as FAO’s focal point to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and the Ramsar Convention and co-leads the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration alongside senior staff from FAO and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
Mr Li has over 15 years of experience in water policy, river basin and freshwater ecosystems management through his work in WWF China, WWF International, Switzerland, and Wetlands International, Netherlands. Furthermore, he has three years of experience in climate financing, national climate planning and programming and country readiness to access climate financing through his work in the Green Climate Fund (GCF, South Korea). Mr Li holds a PhD in physical geography from Chinese Academy of Sciences in China.