Eduardo S. Brondizio is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University, where he directs the Center for the Analysis of Social-Ecological Landscapes and serves as Executive Co-Director of the Ostrom Workshop. He is also an external professor with the Environment and Society program at the University of Campinas, Brazil. Since the late 1980s, his research has focused on social-environmental change and governance in Amazônia. Brondizio co-chaired the IPBES Global Assessment Report and is elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and external member of the French Academy of Agriculture.