Johann Georg Goldammer is Chief of the Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC), which he founded in 1998. Based at Max Planck Institute for Chemistry and Freiburg University, the GFMC has worked with the United Nations family, multilateral and intergovernmental organizations and directly with more than 70 countries in supporting scientific-technical and policy advice for developing policies and capacities in landscape fire management. The GFMC is coordinator the Global Wildland Fire Network (GWFN) and a Voluntary Commitment for the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030. At regional European level, the GMFC is serving as a Specialized Euro-Mediterranean Center under the European and Mediterranean Major Hazards Agreement and supports the Wildfire Disaster Risk Reduction agenda of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). As GWFN coordinator, he has established eight Regional Fire Monitoring / Fire Management Resource Centers throughout the continents. The mission of the GWFN and their regional centers is to provide advisory support to countries and international organizations towards developing policies and capacities in Integrated Landscape Fire Management. GFMC is also serving as Secretariat of the International Fire Aviation Working Group (IFAWG). Goldammer has attended and supported all International Wildland Fire Conferences since 1989.