Expertise and interests: supply chain sustainability; urban food systems; multi-stakeholder process in sustainability issues; multi-level environmental governance; circular economy; ESG

I am looking to supervise students interested in the intersections between some of the following areas: Supply chain sustainability particularly in developing or transitioning economies; Resilience and sustainability in urban food systems; Sustainability and Digital Economy; The environmental and social impacts of China's Belt and Road Initiative;

Lingxuan Liu joined LUMS in March 2016 as a Lecturer of Sustainability. His research interests include sustainable supply chains, sustainable and resilient food systems, corporate sustainability strategies, and ESG. He specializes in business sustainability issues in UK and China, but also has a general interest in developing countries, particularly SEA and Africa. He completed PhD study at Nanjing University on environmental management and policy, during which he managed several research programs about eco-industrial parks and regional environmental policies. He also spent two years at the University of California, Santa Barbara for an exchange program on environmental governance. He has working experience in global environmental NGOs.

Dr Lingxuan Liu is the European PI of a three-year project "SIRIUS" funded by JPI Urban Environment, and a Co-I of project Rurban. He also has extensive business consultancy experience working with small & medium-sized UK companies and organisations, and multi-national companies such as Apple, Walmart and Alibaba.