C.-J. Li received his Ph.D. at McGill University (1992) under the direction of T. H. Chan and D. N. Harpp.  He spent 1992-94 as a NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow with Barry M. Trost at Stanford University (US), and was an Assistant Professor (1994), Associate Professor (1998) and Full Professor (2000) at Tulane University (US).  Since 2003, he has been a Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Green Chemistry and E. B. Eddy Chair Professor at McGill University.  He served as the founding Co-Chair of the Canadian Green Chemistry and Engineering Network (2008-2016), the Director of CFI Infrastructure for Green Chemistry and Green Chemicals, the Director of NSERC CREATE (Center) for Green Chemistry, and the Co-Director of the FQRNT Center for Green Chemistry and Catalysis.  He is the Associate Editor for Green Chemistry (RSC) (2005-2019) and Chemical Communications (2020-). He was a pioneer in using water as green solvent and developing Green Chemistry for chemical synthesis.  He received a US National Science Foundation’s CAREER Award (1997), a US Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award (2001), the 2010 Canadian Green Chemistry and Engineering Award, the 2015 R. U. Lemieux Award as well as the 2018 Alfred Bader Award of the Canadian Chemical Society, the 2020 Catalysis Award and the 2022 CIC Medal, the 2021 Alexander von Humboldt Research Award, and the 2018 Killam Research Fellow of the Canadian Council of Arts.  He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) (2007), the AAAS (2012), the CIC (2013), the ACS (2015), The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) (2016) and the EurASc (2020).