Primary Job Title Associate Fellow Primary Organization 
Chatham House
Location United Kingdom, Europe Regions Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)
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Sam is an anthropologist, writer, editor and consultant with a focus on China and the environment. He has a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Manchester. From 2012-2013, he was Departmental Lecturer in Human Geography of China at the University of Oxford. In 2013, he was also the International Coordinator of a Special Policy Study,
“Promoting Social Media and Public Participation in China’s Green Development" for the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED). he is on the board of the EU-China NGO Twinning Exchange. His research interests include innovation for sustainability, environmental journalism, the politics of climate change, public participation and citizen science. He is an editor of China and the Environment: The Green Revolution (Zed Books, 2013). His writing on Chinese affairs has appeared in many international publications, including BBC Chinese, State of the World 2014, The Guardian, The New Statesman, Shanghaiist, Foreign Policy, New Humanist, Index on Censorship, Solutions, ChinaFile, the China Policy Institute Blog, How We Get To Next, The Conversation and Green Futures. He has also been interviewed by a number of media outlets, including BBC World Service, Monocle 24, PRI, Time Out Beijing and Businessweek.
