Lim Li Ching has a B.Sc. in Ecology and an M.Phil. in Development Studies. She is a Senior Researcher at Third World Network (TWN), an international non-governmental organisation based in Malaysia where she coordinates the Biosafety and Sustainable Agriculture Programmes.

Li Ching is a member of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Socioeconomic Considerations established under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Synthetic Biology established under the Convention on Biological Diversity. She is also a member of the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food).

She was involved in the biosafety capacity building programme of TWN and GenØk-Centre for Biosafety, Norway, and was on the faculty of the international biosafety course Holistic Foundations for the Assessment and Regulation of Genetic Engineering and Genetically Modified Organisms (2003-2012) and several other regional courses.

Li Ching was a lead author of the East and South Asia and the Pacific sub-global report of the International Assessment on Agricultural Science, Technology and Knowledge for Development (IAASTD). She is co-editor of Biosafety First: Holistic Approaches to Risk and Uncertainty in Genetic Engineering and Genetically Modified Organisms (Tapir Academic Press, 2007), and Climate Change and Food Systems Resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa (FAO, 2011).

Selected publications

Lim Li Ching (2017). Synthetic Biology and Relevant International Law. Third World Network. Penang, Malaysia.

Lim Li Lin & Lim Li Ching (2016). The TPPA provides for illegal GMO contamination of our food. Third World Network Briefing Paper.