Professor **Gensuo Jia** is the Director of CAS Global Change Research Center for East Asia (START TEA), deputy director of the International Research Center of big data for SDGs (CBAS). Gensuo has broad research interests in terrestrial ecology and atmospheric sciences, including multi-scale remote sensing of land surface processes, ecosystem-climate interactions, climate extremes, and climate change impacts and adaptation. He serves as coordinating lead author (CLA) of IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land (SRCCL), CLA of UNEP Global Environmental Outlook (GEO-7), member of UNEP-ISC Foresight Expert Panel, and scoping expert for IPBES global biodiversity and ecosystem service assessment.