Dr. Quang Bao Le is currently working as Senior Scientist at CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Systems, International Centre for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA), Amman, Jordan. He earned his Engineer degree in Forestry from Hue University (Vietnam) and M.Sc. in Environmental Science from Chiang Mai University (Thailand). He received a Ph.D. in Geography, Ecology and Natural Resources Management from the University of Bonn. Dr. Le started his career as a Lecturer at Hue University in 1993. After completing his doctorate in 2005, he worked at the Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn as a Postdoctoral Researcher until 2009. Before joining the Dryland Systems program, he was a Senior Scientist at the Department of Environmental Systems Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich. His research interest focuses on development and application of Multi-Agent System Models to investigate land-use (including livelihoods) systems transitions in relation to Ecosystem Services, Food Security and regional/global change drivers, the aim is to develop HES-based tools to support the Transdisciplinary identification of critical leverage points for intervention and effective pathways of community Landscape Transition towards improved long-term food productivity, profitability/efficiency and social equity while minimizing Environmental Impacts. He has researched into the analysis and simulation of adaptive land-use decisions, integration of Ecological models into multi-agent simulation models of social-ecological systems and the feedbacks of long-term trends in land degradation or development into nature society relationships. Recently, his research interests have extended to an understanding of factors and mechanisms accounting for Vulnerability and Resilience of Rural Landscape Systems (including biogeochemical cycles) in the face of Global changes and Viable Social-Ecological Mechanisms for effective restoration of degraded lands. Dr. Le published 50 peer-reviewed publications that include 26 papers indexed in Thomson Reuter ISI or Elsevier SCOPUS. He has served on the editorial boards of three refereed journals. He taught regular and invited graduate courses on Integrated Land Use System Analysis and Modeling, and has supervised the dissertations of more than 12 graduate students from Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America. He is professional member of International Association of Landscape Ecology (IALE) and International Environmental Modelling and Simulation Society (iEMSs). He is also reviewer for number of journals.