Harald Lossack is currently Head of the Competence Center on Biodiversity, Forests and Natural Resources within the GIZ’s Division of Environment and Climate Change. He has been working from 1995 to 2003 in Brazil heading GIZ’s contribution to the Pilot Program for the Conservation of Tropical Rainforests – PPG7. Harald has been leading several programs in the field of sustainable development and natural resource management. He has degrees in Development Sociology and Political Science from the Free University of Berlin.