Director General of International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals (CBAS)
Member of UN 10-Member Group to support the Technology Facilitation Mechanism for SDGs (2018-2021)
BIOGRAPHY
Guo Huadong is Director General of the International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals (CBAS), and a professor of Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He is an Academician of CAS, a Fellow of the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a Foreign Member of the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, and a Fellow of the International Science Council (ISC). He presently serves as Honorary President of the International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE), Director of the International Center on Space Technologies for Natural and Cultural Heritage under the Auspices of UNESCO, Member of ISC Global Commission on Science Missions for Sustainability, Chair of Digital Belt and Road Program (DBAR), and Editor-in-Chief of two scientific journals International Journal of Digital Earth and Big Earth Data. He served as Member of UN 10-Member Group to support the Technology Facilitation Mechanism for SDGs (2018-2021), Chairman of the International Committee of Remote Sensing of Environment (ICORSE) (2017-2020), President of ISDE (2015-2019) and ICSU Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) (2010-2014). Prof. Guo specializes in remote sensing, radar for Earth observation, and Digital Earth science. He has published more than 500 papers and 24 books, and is the awardee of 19 international and domestic prizes.