Jinmei Liu is the director-general of Friends of Nature and currently based in Beijing. She has worked as the head of the law and policy project of Friends of Nature from 2018 to 2021. Jinmei has more than 10 years professional experience in China and South East Asia. She has worked with ClientEarth China Project as lawyer from 2017 to 2018 and focus on legal capacity building and legislation. Before ClientEarth, She has worked as the Mekong legal coordinator of Mekong Legal Program of EarthRights International in Thailand since 2015, focusing on Chinese overseas investment in Southeast Asia and South America. Before joining ERI, Jinmei worked with the Center for Legal Assistance to Pollution Victims (CLAPV) for six years, which is China’s most established group of environmental lawyers.