Chih-Pei Chang is a Distinguished Professor of the US Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. He received his BS from National Taiwan University in 1966 and PhD from the University of Washington in 1972. He is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society and received the Clarence Meisinger Award in 1983 and the Hong Kong Observatory 120th Anniversary Distinguished Meteorologist Award in 2003. He was a Co-Editor of Monsoon Meteorology, Oxford University Press, 1987; and has served on the Editorial Boards of Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences (US), Papers in Meteorological Research (Taiwan), Advances in Atmospheric Sciences (China), and World Scientific Publishing Company (Singapore). He is currently Chairman of World Meteorological Organization's International Panel for East Asian Monsoon.