1964年出生，博士，教授。

    1981年9月清华大学土木与环境工程系学习，1986年7月毕业并获学士学位。1993年获英国帝国理工医学院土木系博士学位。1992年12月英国帝国理工医学院博士后，1994年12月英国帝国理工医学院助理研究员。1998年3月回清华大学任教，1999年任清华大学环境科学与工程系主任，2006年任清华大学副校长，2007年任清华大学常务副校长。2012年1月任清华大学校长。

    长期致力于环境系统分析方面的研究工作，致力于将系统分析的方法和工具应用于环境工程、规划、管理和政策研究，特别是如何解决复杂环境问题的综合性评估及其中的不确定性问题。组织、承担和参与了多项国家攻关、重大专项、基础研究以及国际联合科研项目等。

    目前担任国家环境咨询委员会委员、国家环境保护部科学技术委员会副主任、中国环境科学学会副理事长，中国土木工程学会水工业分会理事长等职

    Professor Chen Jining, President, Tsinghua University

    Born in 1964, Dr. Chen Jining is a Professor of environmental system analysis. He became a student in Tsinghua’s Department of Environmental Engineering in 1981, got his bachelor's degree from Tsinghua in 1986 and his Ph.D degree from Imperial College London, UK in 1993. He became an assistant researcher of Imperial College London in 1994. He joined the Tsinghua University staff in 1998 as Vice Dean of the Department of Environmental Engineering and became Dean of that Department in 1999. Dr. Chen was appointed as Tsinghua University Vice President in 2006. He became Deputy President of Tsinghua in 2007.

    Dr. Chen is currently a member of the National Environmental Advisory Commission, Deputy Chairman of the Science and Technology Committee of MEP, Vice President of the Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences, and board member of the Chinese Environmental Foundation, as well as a number of other scientific committees, professional associations and advisory councils related to water and environment. He is or had been member of several environmental journal editorial boards. His research interests include environmental systems analysis and integrated assessment, with focus on uncertainty analysis, applied to environmental engineering, planning and management as well as policies. He has published over 200 papers and has been an author or co-editor to a number of books. He is an owner to over a dozen of registered environmental software and patents, and has won several scientific prizes for his distinguished work.