Professor Yixian Sun is Professor of Sustainability Governance at the University of Bath, United Kingdom, and a UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellow. He leads a £1.8 million research project on the sustainability governance of China’s global infrastructure investments, is an Associate Editor of Global Environmental Politics and World Development Perspectives, and is a member of the Expert Peer Review Group for the UN-supported Race to Zero campaign. His research covers transnational governance, environmental politics and sustainable development, with a focus on emerging economies and China’s changing role in global environmental governance. He is the author of Certifying China (MIT Press, 2022) and has published over 25 articles in journals including Science, Nature Sustainability, Nature Food and Global Environmental Change.