Zhongyang Luo is a Professor in the Department of Energy Engineering, Dean of the Department of Energy Engineering and Director of the State Key Laboratory of Clean Energy Utilization at Zhejiang University, China. He was chair of the APEC Symposium on Energy Efficiency of Low Rank Coal in 2012 and has participated in numerous other international projects, including the Sino-Canada Clean Coal Technology demonstration Center and the KTH-China Energy Center. He produced over 700 academic papers and published four books.