XIA Yingxian is the Chief Programme Officer at the Department of International Cooperation of the Chinese State Environmental Protection Administration. He has been responsible for policy formulation of and negotiation on international conventions such as the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Basel Convention on the Management of Hazardous Wastes Transboundary Movements and Their Disposal, as well as the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants. He has also been heavily involved in many international meetings and conferences on sustainable development.

Yingxian has an MSc in governance and development management from the School of Public Policy at the University of Birmingham in the UK, and is also an English major at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature of Nankai University in Tianjin, China.