Budong Qian received the B.S. degree from Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, Nanjing, China, in 1982 and M.Sc. degree from Hohai University, Nanjing, China, in 1990. He received the Ph.D. degree in physics (meteorology) from the University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, in 1999. He is currently a Research Scientist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada. His research interests include impacts of climate variability and change on agricultural production and food security and development of adaptation strategies to climate change.