The World Fellows

Deputy Director, Public Interest Law Institute, China Program

Committed to justice and strengthening the rule of law, Zhang Jingjing is one of China’s leading public interest lawyers. An outspoken environmental advocate, she represents pollution victims in law suits and promotes public participation by helping communities organize public hearings on environmental rights and licensing processes. Through her work with the Center for Legal Assistance to Pollution Victims, she has won milestone cases in the Chinese courts, including the first successful environmental class action suit in China, against a chemical company that discharged toxic substances in Fujian Province.  Since 2009, she has been the Deputy Country Director of PILnet: the Global Network for Public Interest Law, working on promoting public interest litigation and environmental courts in China.  She is also the co-director and a partner in the first-ever Chinese environmental public interest law firm, Beijing Huanzhu Law Firm.  She won the SEE-TNC (The Nature Conservancy) Eco-award in May 2011 and was named an Asia Society Asia 21 Fellow.

2008 Duncan G. Greenberg Fellow

Media

A legal crusader against polluters in China, The Seattle Times, May 21, 2009.

Netcast (audio): The Erin Brockovich of China, December 17, 2008. Click here for Netcast >>

Answers from Zhang Jingjing, The New York Times, August 29, 2007.