Jhan Carlo Espinoza is a Peruvian researcher with a Ph.D. in Environmental Science from the Pierre et Marie Curie University of Paris, France. Currently, he is a Research Director at the French Institute of Research for Development (IRD), with experience in Peru, France, Argentina and Brazil. He is author/co-author of more than 100 research papers about climate variability and change in the Amazon basin, with particular focus on the Amazon-Andes transition region. In 2015, Jhan Carlo was nominated for the Peruvian state to the Science Prize for Innovation, Research and Education, in the theme Disaster Risk Reduction. He was one of authors of IPCC-SRCCL 2019 and he is currently co-chair of the Regional Hydroclimatic Programme for the Andes (ANDEX) supported by GEWEX/WCRP. For the 2022-2026 period he is based at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) in Lima.