Founding Director
Ma Jun

Founding Director

Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs

Ma Jun began his career in 1993 working for the South China Morning Post, where his research on China’s environmental problems spurred him to publish the 1999 book China’s Water Crisis. In 2004 he was selected as a Yale World Fellow. In 2006, Ma Jun founded the non-profit organization the Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs (IPE) in Beijing, China.

Ma Jun has led the development and launch of China’s first environmental public database, the China Pollution Map, as well as the Blue Map (Weilan Ditu), a mobile app that helps the public use “micro-reports” against environmental violations and polluting rivers, and facilitate garbage sorting and recycling. The green supply chain and green finance program and public supervision he and colleagues initiated has motivated more than 16,000 companies to openly address their violation problems or disclose emission data.

In 2006, he was awarded as China’s “Green Person of the Year” and was named as one of TIME Magazine’s World’s 100 Most Influential People. Ma was also honored with the Magsaysay Award in 2009 and Goldman Prize in 2012 for his environmental protection work in China, as well as the 2015 Skoll Foundation Award for Social Entrepreneurship for his innovative approach to address China’s pollution problems. In 2019, Ma was invited as a Special Observer by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment.

公眾環境研究中心創始人、主任馬軍先生

1993年起在《南華早報》工作,期間研究中國環境問題,並於1999年出版專著《中國水危機》。2004年入選耶魯大學世界學人項目(Yale World Fellows Program)。

2006年創立公眾環境研究中心,並主持開發和運行中國首個公益環境數據庫,2014年發布蔚藍地圖APP,協助公眾獲取空氣、水質、海洋和土壤風險信息,並參與監督企業排放,舉報水體污染,落實社區垃圾分類。基於蔚藍大數據,IPE不斷推進綠色供應鏈,服務綠色金融,賦能社會監督,推動逾16,000家企業改善和披露。

馬軍於2006年被評為綠色中國年度人物,並入選《時代週刊》最具影響100人;2009年獲麥格賽賽獎;2012年獲戈德曼環境獎;2015年成為「斯科爾社會企業家獎」第一個來自中國的獲獎者;2019年受邀成為生態環境部特邀觀察員。