Professor Wang Jinggou graduated with BSc in Soil Science from Beijing Agricultural
University (Currently China Agricultural University), Beijing, CHINA, in 1982, and with PhD in Microbiology from Agricultural University of Norway in 1991. He was employed as a teaching assistant in agrochemistry by Beijing Agricultural University from Jan.1982 to Aug.1986 prior to his promotion to lecturer in July 1987 (to April 1991), then to Associat e Professor in 1993. He was awarded a full professorship in 1999 at the China Agricultural University (CAU). He has been engaged partially in an administrative position, as Director of International Relations of CAU from Dec. 1998 to May 2006. Professor Wang Jingguo has been the Chair of Commission of Soil Education, Soil Science Society of China since Oct. 2000, co-Chair of Supervision Committee of Agricultural Resources and Environmental Sciences of The Ministry of Education, China, since 2003, and editor of Acta Pedologica Sinica, since Aug. 2004. Professor Wang Jingguo intends to exchange and share information and experiences with colleagues from other countries, for stimulating internationalization of soil education in China, where there is an increase in both undergraduate and postgraduate numbers. He also seeks to cooperate with colleagues and organizations to improve the understanding by the global community of the importance of soils to sustainable land use and the quality of our environment especially in the developing world.