Since March 2017, Dr. Soussana is the Vice-President for international policy of INRAE (INRA, prior to 2020). He obtained his PhD in plant physiology at USTL Montpellier in 1986 after an agricultural engineer degree and was by INRA as junior scientist. After becoming senior scientist, he was the director of the grassland ecosystems research laboratory from 2000 to 2009. From 2010 to 2017, he became Scientific Director for Environment. Dr. Soussana is member of the IPCC since 2018. He has contributed as Lead Author to three assessment reports (Working Group II contribution) and to the Special Report on Climate Change and Land adopted in 2019. He is a member of the French Climate Change Committee and of the newly established EU Scientific Advisory board on Climate Change. He co-chairs the Integrative Research Group of the Global Research Alliance on agricultural greenhouse gases (60 countries) and the joint programing of research on agriculture, food security and climate change (FACCE JPI, 21 countries). He is vice-chair of the Scientific and Technical Committee of the “4 per 1000. Soils for Food Security and Climate” initiative launched at COP21. He coordinated European (EC FP5, FP7 and H2020) research projects on climate change, soils and agriculture. He has published 175 research papers in international journals. He is a highly cited researcher Honours: Shared Nobel Prize for Peace in 2007 with all IPCC co-authors; shared Gerbier-Mumm prize of WMO.