Prof. Hermann Lotze-Campen studied Agricultural Sciences and Agricultural Economics in Kiel (Germany), Reading (UK) and Minnesota (USA) and holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Humboldt University Berlin. He is chairing the Research Department Climate Resilience at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and a Professor of Sustainable Land Use and Climate Change at HU Berlin. He is working on global land use modelling, climate impacts and economic damages, multi-sector impact aggregation, land-based climate change mitigation, and sustainable development pathways. He is an Executive Committee member of the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project and strongly involved in the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project. He is a long-term active member in the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) Germany, the FABLE consortium, and the Food System Economics Commission. Since 2018 he has been regularly listed among the top one percent of most highly cited researchers in his field (Clarivate Web of Science).