Dr. Zhonghe Zhou (Chinese:周忠和,1965-),born in Jiangdu, Jiangshu Province, is a paleo-ornothologist, and the nineth and tenth director of the IVPP (2008-). He graduated from the Department of Geology of Nanjing University in 1986, and after getting his Ph. D. from the University of Kansas in USA in 1999, he returned to IVPP as the first awardee of 100 Talents Programme of the Chinese Academy of Sciences at IVPP. In 2000, he won the Outstanding Youth Fund of National Natural Science Foundation of China. In 2001, his research team won the Distinguished Innovation Research Group of National Natural Science Foundation of China. He was elected as Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences of USA in 2010, and as member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (academician) in 2011. He was was elected as member of Standing Committee of the CPPCC National Committee in 2013. He is the current president of International Paleontological Association, and deputy editor in chief of National Science Review. He twice won the Second Prize of National Natural Science Award of China, and was honored as the Outstanding individual returning from study abroad recognized by the Chinese government. He won the Outstanding Science and Technology Achievement Prize of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Science and Technology Award for Young Chinese Scientist etc.