SHI GUOQING

alternate CHAIR, civil society

Director of National Research Center for Resettlement, Hohai University

Since 1993, Professor Shi has been the Director of National Research Center for Resettlement of Hohai University. He is one of the main creators and a board member of the International Displacement and Resettlement Network (IDRN) in 2000. He is a senior resettlement adviser of TGP and SNWT Project, World Bank, ADB since 1993. He was engaged in more than 30 large scale hydropower dam projects in China and globally.

He is the Chair of Membership Committee and Member of Boarding Committee (2010-2012) of IWRA. He is a member of the Sustainable Hydropower Council and Chamber of Emerging and Developing Countries Committee of International Hydropower Association (IHA). He is also International Member of the Committee of Expert of Turkey’s Ilisu Dam and HEPP Project from 2007 to 2009, the International Panel Member of Dasu and Tabeila 4th Hydropower Project in Pakistan since 2012. He is a senior adviser of Resettlement Development Bureau of Three Gorges Dam Project Construction Committee under State Council since 1993, Adviser of World Bank, Asian Development Bank since 1994, Member of IASFM, Founding Chairperson of Resettlement and Migration Committee of Chinese Sociology Association (CSA), Vice-Chairperson of Resettlement Committee of Chinese Hydropower Engineering Association (CHEA), etc.

He received BA and MA in Hydraulics Engineering in 1982 and 1989 in Hohai University China.