Professor Yu Gang is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He is currently the Dean of the College of Future Technology and the Dean of the Advanced Interdisciplinary Institute of Environment and Ecology at Beijing Normal University. Additionally, he serves as the Chair of the Expert Committee for the National Coordination Group for Implementing the Stockholm Convention and the Minamata Convention, Deputy Chair of the Expert Committee on New Pollutants Management, a member of the National Committee of Experts on Eco-Environmental Protection, and Vice Chairman and Secretary-General of the China Urban Science Research Association.

Professor Yu earned his Bachelor's degree from the Department of Chemistry at Nanjing University in 1986. He obtained his Master's degree in Environmental Science from Nanjing University in 1989, followed by a Ph.D. from the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 1992. From 1992 to 2022, he worked at Tsinghua University, where he served as the Head of the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering and the Dean of the School of Environment.

Professor Yu Gang has long been engaged in research on new pollutants, such as persistent organic pollutants and environmental endocrine disruptors. He has developed new catalytic degradation technologies for persistent organic pollutants and mechanochemical treatment processes and equipment. He has achieved innovative research results in national strategies for environmental pollution control and international compliance. Professor Yu served as the Co-Chair of the Best Available Techniques/Best Environmental Practices expert group for the Stockholm Convention under the United Nations Environment Programme. His research has earned him a National Natural Science Award (Second Class), two National Science and Technology Progress Awards (Second Class), the Guanghua Engineering Science and Technology Award, and 50 authorized invention patents.

Professor Yu Gang has mentored nearly a hundred postgraduate students. He has received the First Prize for Graduate Education Achievement from the Chinese Society of Academic Degrees and Graduate Education, a National Teaching Achievement Award (Second Class), and the Beijing Excellent Teacher Award. He initiated and chaired the Persistent Organic Pollutants Committee of the Chinese Society of Environmental Sciences and founded the national academic annual conference series on persistent organic pollutants. He is also the Director of the Guangdong Province Key Laboratory for Sewage Information Analysis and Early Warning and served as the founding Editor-in-Chief of the international journal "Emerging Contaminants." Professor Yu has made significant contributions to advancing technology, talent development, and academic progress in the field of new pollutant governance in China.

Mr. Chairman, in recognition of Prof Yu Gang's extraordinary achievements in the field of controlling persistent organic pollutants, I hereby request that you confer on him the title of an Honorary Fellowship.