Professor Dr. Lei SHEN is a leading scientist in the area of natural resources economics and management, a geographer and geologist, an urban and spatial planner, with 20 years’ experience as the former secretary general, vice-president and executive secretary general of China Society of Natural Resources from 2004 to 2024.

Dr. SHEN has worked over 35 years in energy policy and mineral economics, regional development planning, resources- based city transformation and sustainable development, and energy and mineral security analysis. He has been teaching the graduate course of Resource Economics since 2006 at the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(UCAS) in China; has trained and guided 45 master and doctoral students, including three international students from countries such as Laos and Rwanda and 16 postdoctoral fellows, published over 300 academic articles in Nature Climate Change, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Global Change Biology, Science bulletin, Resources, Conservation and Recycling, Energy, Energy Policy, Renewable Energy, Energy Conversion and Management, Energies, Ecological Indicators, Journal of Cleaner Production, Natural Resource Forum, Resources Policy, Environmental Policy and Law, Environmental Science & Policy, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Journal of Environmental Management, Science of The Total Environment, Water, Cities, Sustainability, Sustainable Cities and Society, and others, with an H-index of 82 for Web of Science, and a total of 35756 SCI citations (34778 citations from others); published over 10 monographs; won 8 software copyrights and 1 invention patent and 6 awards; submitted more than 20 major consulting suggestion reports to different governments and corporates.

Dr. SHEN led and actively involved in lots of multi-lateral natural resource comprehensive survey and research cooperations in Laos, Myanmar, Kenya, Pakistan, Russia, jointly establishing three oversea research centers in Kenya, Laos and Pakistan. He worked as a Council Member of Minerals and Metal in World Economic Forum from 2010 to 2012 and Coordinator of CASM (Community and Artisanal- and Small-scale of Mines) in China and later Committee Member of Strategic Management Advisory Group (SMAG) of CASM at the World Bank Group from 2003 to 2010.

Dr. SHEN holds a M.Sc. in Mineral Geology from China University of Sciences (Beijing), LLM in Mineral Law and Policy from University of Dundee in UK and an Ph.D. in Geography from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in China.

More about Dr. Lei SHEN could be visited at his Personal Webpage and IDs:

1. Web of Science ResearcherID: S-7788-2016
2. Scopus Author ID: 35312367700
3. ResearchgateID: Lei_Shen6
4. ORCiD: 0000-0003-4782-3779
5. SciProfilesID: 482702

Dr. SHEN could be contacted via email shenl@igsnrr.ac.cn or info@iaonr.org.