Professor Fang has been with the School of Civil Engineering at Tsinghua University for 30 years and holds Bachelors and Masters Degrees from Xi’an Jiaotong University and a Masters and Doctorate from Iwate and Kyushu universities in Japan. He also holds positions of Honorary Professor at The University of Hong Kong in China and UCL in the UK. His research interests include construction safety and urban resilience. Dongping served as Programme Committee Chair of CIB from 2010 to 2013, Vice President of CIB from 2013 to 2016, and was most recently a Board member from 2022.