Johann G. Goldammer is senior scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Biogeochemistry Department and serves as head of the Fire Ecology Research Group and the Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC). The GFMC is a contribution of Germany to the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR). At Freiburg University he is serving as professor for fire ecology. Since 2005 the GFMC is an Associate Institute of the United Nations University (UNU). J.G. Goldammer is also serving as coordinator the UNISDR Wildland Fire Advisory Group and the UNISDR Global Wildland Fire Network. Since 1988 he is editor of UNECE-FAO International Forest Fire News (IFFN) as one of the core tasks of his lead of the UNECE-FAO Team of Specialists on Forest Fire. He is working closely with the a number of specialized UN agencies and programmes, such as FAO and Joint UNEP-OCHA Joint Environment Unit, Emergency Services Branch, and is member of the Steering Committee of the Advisory Group on Environmental Emergencies (AGEE). The GFMC is serving as an advisory body to the UN system through the coordination of the UNISDR Wildland Fire Advisory Group, including its Fire Aviation Working Group, and the UNISDR Global Wildland Fire Network. The GFMC is also offering liaison capabilities for providing assistance for rapid assessment and decision support in response to wildland fire emergencies under cooperative agreements with the Joint Environment Unit of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). GFMC is partner in the Partnership for Environment and Disaster Risk Reduction (PEDRR) integrated within the UNISDR system.