Benjamin Quesada is a french climatologist, professor and co-director of the Earth System Sciences Program of the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Universidad del Rosario, with a Master degree and PhD in climate sciences from the Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (IPSL) in France and a postdoc in vegetation-atmosphere interactions from the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology in Germany. Through more than 20 scientific publications, his research focuses mainly on: climate change, climate extremes, impacts of deforestation on climate, water and carbon cycling. He is also co-author of the IPCC International Special Report on Climate Change and Land and the Global Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services IPBES.