Kuei-Tien Chou is Professor at the Graduate Institute of National Development, National Taiwan University. He also serves as Director at the Risk Society and Policy Research Center (RSPRC), National Taiwan University, leading a team of young researchers to research and develop policy recommendations on climatechange, energy transition and social transformation, as well as on emerging technology risks such as genetic modification, nanotechnology, information and communications, and artificial intelligence. He has a PhD in Sociology from the University of Munich, after graduating with a bachelor's in Sociology at the National Taiwan University in 1992, and a master's in 1994. Under the tutelage of one of the greatest thinkers in contemporary social thought Ulrich Beck, Professor Chou has dedicated himself to advocating for the creation and transformation toward a “risk society”in Taiwan and East Asia. Professor Chou believes that therisk governance deadlock and political distrust that has developed over the last 10 years, as well as the disruption in the connection between academia and society, require societies to embark on expeditious transformation, otherwise which our societies would not be able to cope with the scale of societal, economic, environment and technological changes which will surpass that of the 20^th century. Some of the most recent representative works by Professor Chou include book publications, Paradigm Shift of the Risk Society – Constructing Responsible Governance for Citizens in 2014, Sociology of Climate Change: the High Carbon Society and its transformation challenge in 2017, Energy Transition in East Asia – A Social Science Perspective in 2018, and Climate Change Governance in Asia in 2020.