Jes Weigelt is the coordinator of the Global Soil Week Forum at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam. He gained his PhD in Agronomy at the Humboldt-University in Berlin researching agricultural reform processes in the Brazilian Amazon. He now coordinates processes to foster the knowledge exchange between scientists and decision makers to enable Sustainable Land Management and secure access to land. Before his current position at IASS, he worked for the International Fund for Agricultural Development and worked at the Humboldt-University in Berlin.