Chinese scientist Zhu Yongguan has been elected as the vice president of the International Science Council (ISC), the council's official website showed on Friday.

He will oversee the coordination of the relationship between ISC members, decide on the strategy of membership development and provide strategic guidance and suggestions for the long-term development of the ISC, according to the China Association for Science and Technology, which recommended Zhu to the council.

Zhu is a professor of environmental science and an academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The ISC website described him as "a leader in taking multi-scale and transdisciplinary approaches to environmental problems."

Born in 1967 in Tongxiang City, east China's Jiangxi Province, Zhu has been pursuing the study of environmental science. He graduated from Zhejiang Agricultural University in 1989 and obtained a PhD in environmental biology from Imperial College, London, in 1998.

The council also elected its next president, another vice president and five governing board members, who will all take office after the ISC general assembly in late January 2025.