Prof. Dehua LIU is an internationally recognized leader and innovator in research and commercialization of biorefinery technologies for producing biofuels and biochemicals. Based on his innovation and under his leadership, both the enzymatic production of biodiesel and bio-PDO fermentation directly from crude glycerol have been globally and firstly commercialized, winning the BlueSky award from UNIDO and gold medal in Geniva Invention Show. He led the technology transfer and demonstration of the above enzymatic biodiesel in Brazil, featured as a typical case of South-South bioeconomic cooperation by UNOSSC. He is also an outstanding educator, training 72 PhD/MSc students, filing 132 patents.