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Eduardo S. Brondizio is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Directs the Center for the Analysis of Social-Ecological Landscapes, and Senior Fellow at the Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University-Bloomington, where he served two terms as chair of the Department of Anthropology. Brondizio holds external professorship with the Environment and Society program at the University of Campinas, Brazil. Brazilian-born, Brondizio’s career has uniquely weaved agricultural sciences, anthropology and geospatial analysis to address questions of human-environmental interaction from the local to global scales. Since the late 1980s, he has dedicated his research to understanding and responding to the social-environmental transformation and governance challenges of Amazônia and has been closely involved with international research programs advancing understanding of the human dimensions of and responses to global environmental and climate change. Brondizio’s work is known for advancing innovative multi-scalar methodologies towards problem-oriented and participatory social-ecological research in Amazonia and beyond. Among numerous international advisory and editorial roles, Prof. Brondizio has also been fortunate to work closely with international global change research programs, in particular, the International Geosphere Biosphere Program (IGBP), now part of the Future Earth program of which served on the inaugural Science Committee. He has also had the privilege of contributing to regional, national, and global assessments such as the first assessment of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, UNEP’s Global Environmental Outlook (GEO-4), the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB), the United Nations Inter-governmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), the Global Forest Expert Panels (GFEP) on Forests and Food Security [IUFRU, FAO], among many others. He co-chaired the Global Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), approved by 132 countries in 2019. Brondizio is also fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology, foreign member of the French Academy of Agriculture, and elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the United States National Academy of Sciences. Brondizio is co-Editor in Chief of the journal Global Environmental Change.