Mr. Zhu Shu is the Regional Director of Local Governments for Sustainability(ICLEI) East Asia Secretariat and also serves as ICLEI’s China Representative. He has extensive experience in sustainable development and regional cooperation. Previously, he held a leadership position at the UNDP Secretariat for the Greater Tumen Initiative (GTI), an intergovernmental economic cooperation mechanism between China, Mongolia, the Republic of Korea, and the Russian Federation, where he led the successful expansion of the organization and its programs. He was also a journalist and editor at the People’s Daily and a senior manager at Telstra. He holds an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master's in Comparative Local Development from the University of Regensburg, the University of Trento, and Corvinus University of Budapest.