Song Li

Song Li serves as a Board member, for Earth Charter International (ECI). She has been involved in and associated with the Earth Charter since 1998. Before, she worked with the World Bank as Senior Environmental Specialist, for Middle East and North Africa regions. She served as the Task Team Leader for environmental, agricultural, coastal zone management, and climate change adaptation projects in Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, and Yemen. She was also the coordinator for the Global Environment Facility (GEF) in the region, covering projects in the areas of biological diversity, climate change (mitigation and adaptation), waste management, and land degradation.

Other contributions she has made include:

Designing the World Bank's first climate change adaptation project in agricultural water management for China; responsible for capacity-building projects in the area of climate change and biological diversity for GEF.

Working with the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity under the United Nations Environment Program in Geneva.

Director, Division of Environmental Law, Legal Department, in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, China.

She has an Environmental Law LLM degree from George Washington University. She received an international law certificate in China. She also studied at the Universities Paris III and VII, French Literature of the 17th century in France. Additionally, she studied at the Institute of Foreign Languages of Beijing.