Dr Gensuo Jia graduated from the Inner Mongolia University in 1987 with a Bachelor’s degree in Plant Ecology.  He received a Master’s degree in Biogeography & GIS in 1990, and his PhD degree in Physical Geography in 1996 from the Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.

Now he is Director of CAS Global Change Research Center for East Asia (START TEA), with broad research interests in terrestrial ecology and atmospheric sciences, including multi-scale remote sensing of land surface processes, ecosystem-climate interactions, climate extremes and natural disasters, and climate change impacts and adaptation. He is currently serves as member of the International Science Council (ISC) Regional Committee for Asia-Pacific, Chair of Science Planning Committee of CAS Big Earth Data Science Engineering program (CASEarth), coordinating lead author (CLA) of IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land (SRCCL), CLA of UNEP Global Environmental Outlook (GEO-6), Deputy Co-Chair of Group on Earth Observation (GEO) climate change working group, and IPBES nexus assessment scoping expert.