Florian Kraxner Florian Kraxner has been ESM’s Deputy Director since January 2009. He joined IIASA in 2004 to work on LULUCF and has been coordinator of various projects and tenders (EU/other funders) in the areas of Carbon Sequestration Potentials, Benefits through Global Earth Observation, or Terrestrial Adaptation and Mitigation of Climate Change. Presently, Dr. Kraxner is the scientific coordinator and principal investigator of a large-scale research and capacity building project called RESTORE+ | Assessing Landscape Restoration in Indonesia and Brazil. The project is funded by the German BMUB/IKI (7.2 mio. EUR/2017-2021).

Asia Khamzina Asia Khamzina is a Full Professor (Agroforestry Systems and Ecology) at the Division of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering, Korea University (South Korea). Her research focus is on socio-ecological processes and management of forest and agroforestry systems in conjunction with long-term field trials and landscape surveys in Central Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. She holds a PhD degree in Agricultural Sciences from the University of Bonn, (Germany) and the Engineering degree from Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization Engineers (Uzbekistan). She has published >60 papers in peer-reviewed journals and books and served as an associate editor of Change and Adaptation in Socio-Ecological Systems (CASES) and on editorial board of Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems, Forest Science and Technology, and Scientific Reports journals.

Young-Ho Ko Dr. Youngho Ko is a research professor at OJeong Resilience Institute (OJERI) of Korea University, Korea. He did his Ph.D. in Chemical Oceanography (2016) at the Division of Environmental Science and Engineering of Pohang University of Science and Technology. His research focuses on understanding the global carbon cycle and the role of the ocean in absorbing CO2 released from human activity. He is particularly interested in the role phytoplankton play in the ocean's carbon cycle by converting CO2 to organic carbon, some of which is then exported to the deep ocean.

Sok Kim Dr. Sok Kim is a research professor at OJeong Resilience Institute (OJERI) of Korea University, Korea. He did his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering(2014) at the Division of Semiconductor and Chemical Engineering of Jeonbuk National University. His most recent study was Application of a polyethylenimine-modified polyacrylonitrile-biomass waste composite fiber sorbent for the removal of a harmful cyanobacterial species from an aqueous solution(2020) and Adsorption Strategy for Removal of Harmful Cyanobacterial Species Microcystis aeruginosa Using Chitosan Fiber(2020).

Sonam Wangyel Wang A social environmental leader, dedicated to management, teaching, and researching the fundamentals of the human-Nature interface and the impact of this relationship, especially in conservation landscapes; a partner with governments, NGOs, and international agencies on issues including ecosystem services, forests, biodiversity, climate change, poverty, and gender in the Asia Pacific. Consulting in areas of monitoring and evaluation of programs and projects, policy analysis, project development, organizational and management planning.

Xiangzhou Yuan Dr. Xiangzhou Yuan is a Research Professor of Korea University in Seoul, South Korea. His academic background covers clean energy technology, sustainable waste management, and valorization of solid waste into value-added products (i.e., biochar, porous carbon). Dr. Yuan also has an area of expertise in climate change mitigation and wastewater purification. He has registered 4 Korea domestic patents and published about 30 research papers in high reputed SCI journals, such Green Chem, Chem Eng J, J Hazard. Mater, Appl Energ. He is also active in servicing as the Outside Director of Sun Brand Industrial Inc. from 2020 and the Key Academic Committee of International Cooperation Research Centre of Carbon Capture in Ultra-low Energy-consumption, Tianjin, China from 2018. He was servicing as the Local Organizing Committee of 20th International Conference on Heavy Metals in the Environment (ICHMET) 2020 held at Korea University.

Nanthi Bolan Dr. Vo Thanh Son works for the Central Institute for Natural Resources and Environmental Studies (VNU-CRES), Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam where he serves as a Vice Director General. Dr. Son has worked in the field of natural resource management, especially for national park, nature reserve and biosphere reserve and relationship between biodiversity conservation and socio-economic development, and for last 15 years, in the field of sustainable development and climate change, mostly from policy perspective. He tries to apply interdisciplinary approach to combine natural and social sciences, based on the principles of sustainable development to serve for policy making process. Dr. Son has opportunities to contribute to develop Vietnam’s Agenda 21 (Strategic Orientation for Sustainable Development in Vietnam), and for last 10 years, to consult with Ministry of Planning and Investment on policy of sustainable development and implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in Vietnam. He published several papers in the field of biodiversity conservation, sustainable development and climate change, mostly in the proceedings of national scientific workshop.