Josef Settele

Josef (Sepp) works at the UFZ – Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Halle/Germany, where he heads the Department of Conservation Biology and Social-Ecological Systems. He holds a PhD in agriculture, based on agro-ecological research on biocontrol in tropical irrigated rice systems and is professor of ecology at the Martin-Luther- University of Halle-Wittenberg. He has extensive science-policy-experience, e.g. as co-chair of the Global Assessment of IPBES from 2016 to 2019 and Coordinating Lead Author of the 5 th Assessment Report of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – IPCC. He also is co-author of the IPBES-IPCC co- sponsored workshop report on biodiversity and climate change, published in 2021. Since July 2020 he is member of the “German Advisory Council on the Environment” of the German government. Since July 2022 he is member of the MEP (Multidisciplinary Expert Panels) of IPBES, elected by the community of WEOG countries (Western Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand). His research focusses on the interface of land use, climate and biological diversity. He is highly cited researcher in Web of Science. He was and is coordinating major national and international inter- and transdisciplinary research projects.