Prof. Dr. Fangli Qiao, Member of Academia Europaea (MAE), Academician of International Eurasian Academy of Sciences, and the co-Editor-in-Chief of Ocean Modelling, is one of the most active oceanographers on international cooperation in China. Dr. Qiao has been actively envolving in UNESCO/IOC activities. For examples, he was the Executive Planning Group (2018-2020) and then Decade Advisory Board (2021-2023) members of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development; the founding director of UN Ocean Decade Collaborative Centre on Ocean-climate Nexus (DCC-OCC, since 2022) and the founding director of UNESCO/IOC Regional Training and Research Center on Ocean Dynamics and Climate (UNESCO/IOC-ODC, since 2011). He is the Deputy Director General of the First Institute of Oceanography (FIO) of Ministry of Natural Resources of China, Chair of the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research of China (China-SCOR, since 2019). His research interests cover ocean and climate model development, ocean dynamics, turbulence and air-sea interaction, etc. He finds the key roles of small scale surface wave in large scale ocean circulation and global climate system through modulating ocean turbulence and air-sea fluxes, which is called Qiao Theory. The theory has been used by tens of research centers from different countries and all ocean and climate models tested are dramatically improved. He developed the first in the world new generation surface wave-tide-circulation fully coupled ocean model (FIO-COM) which overcomes the great challenge for half century : under-simulated mixed layer depth in the upper ocean and overestimated sea surface temperature especially in summer; the atmosphere-ocean-wave coupled Typhoon/Hurricane model (FIO-AOW) which greatly enhances the Typhoon intensity forecasting ability, a bottleneck for several decades ; and the earth system model including surface waves (FIO-ESM), which kills more than half of the long-standing tropical biases. He received numerous academic awards including Wooster Award of PICES, National Innovation Awards of China, etc. He has more than 400 publications on peer-review scientific journals, which have been cited for more than 10 thousand times.