The graduation ceremony for 2011 IESD master candidates was held at the lobby of Mingjing Building on June 4th, 2013. The ceremony was hosted by Prof. LI Fengting, the Vice dean of IESD. Prof. Wu Jiang, Vice President of Tongji University, also the Dean of IESD, Ms. Monika MacDevette, Deputy Director, UNEP Division of Early Warning and Assessment (DEWA), and Mr. Surendra Shrestha, Director, Strategic Resource Mobilization/Special Initiatives, UNEP were invited to deliver their congratulation speeches to all the graduates.Prof. Wu recalled the progress IESD has made in the last decade on academic communication, education, and international cooperation, showing his sincerely great expectations to all the IESD young graduates. Ms. Monika MacDevette emphasized the purposes and aims of the academic and education collaboration by UNEP, and expressed her strong support and appreciation to IESD’s consistent endeavor for cultivating future leaders and policy-makers. Mr. Surendra Shrestha suggested students from IESD go for an internship in UNEP, thus get a better understanding of the mission of the youth for environment protection. The present leaders and teachers showed warm congratulations to all the candidates from all around the world, encouraging them to move forward to the future careers of global environmental protection and sustainability. Two salutatorians, Liu Sijia(China) and Okward Christine (Kenya) gave their short speeches, strongly expressed their appreciation for the two years’ study in IESD.

After the speeches, the 2011 graduates went up one by one to get their certifications, and accept the blessing and wishes from the leaders and teachers. Group photos were taken then.

In the end of the ceremony, the students also had a close talk with the officers from the UNEP. The graduation ceremony achieved a great success finally.