Zuzana Harmackova

Zuzana Harmáčková leads the Department of Social-Ecological Analysis at the Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, after previous research roles at Stockholm Resilience Centre and UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. She works with stakeholders, experts and policy-makers across geographic and cultural contexts (Africa, Central Asia, Europe) to co-develop scenarios of potential future development, and pathways to just and sustainable futures for people and nature. Zuzana has been involved in science-policy interfaces related to biodiversity, ecosystem services and sustainability challenges and contributed to the futures chapters of the IPBES Nexus Assessment (coordinating lead author), IPBES Values Assessment (lead author) and IPBES Regional Assessment for Europe and Central Asia (fellow). She is involved in lecturing and supervision at the Faculty of Science at Charles University in Prague and the Faculty of Social Studies at Masaryk University in Brno.