Kung-Yueh Camyale Chao has been working in the public affairs fields for 20 years, and he is currently the Executive Director of International Climate Development Institute (ICDI). In addition, Camyale also served as the General Secretary of the International Forum of Meteorological Societies (IFMS) from January 2016 to September 2018, and has been elected as the Treasurer of IFMS since Sep 2019.

Camyale was involved in many international activities e.g. Future Colab in Future Earth, CSO Representative in EBRD etc..Prior to this position, Camyale served as the Deputy Director of APEC Research Center for Typhoon and Society (ACTS) for 4 years.

Camyale studied Ph.D. in Politics at the University of York in the UK, and also studied Ph.D. in Educational Policy and Management at the National Taipei University of Education. He was Lecturer in various Universities including Tamkang University, Taipei City University of Science and Technology, and teaching “Smart City Governance” course at Soochow University. Camyale is also a certified trainer of UNISDR.