Xuemei Bai World Sustainable Built Environment Conference 2026

Xuemei Bai

Xuemei Bai is a Distinguished Professor and an Australian Research Council’s Laureate Fellow at Fenner School of Environment & Society Australian National University. Her research focuses on the science and policy of rapid urbanization and urban system sustainability. She has published extensively on these topics, with many appearing in journals such as Nature, Science, Nature Sustainability, Nature Climate Change etc. Distinguished Prof. Bai is a member of the Earth Commission, leading its workstream on Translation, Actors and Agency. She serviced as a Vice Chair of International Human Dimensional Program on Global Change; served as a member of the inaugural Science Committee of Future Earth, and led the development of Future Earth Urban Knowledge-Action Network, which was launched at the 2016 UN Habitat III Conference in Quito. She was a Lead Author for four major global assessments, i.e. the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, Global Energy Assessment, IPBES Global Assessment, and the IPCC AR6 WGIII. Distinguished Prof. Bai is a Fellow of Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia since 2017, and was named as one of the World's 100 Most Influential People in Climate Change Policy in 2019 and 2022. She is the Laureate of the Volvo Environment Prize 2018, and the Global Economy Prize 2021.