Tasso Rezende de Azevedo is a Brazilian scientist and social entrepreneur working on the field of forests, sustainability, and climate change. He coordinates MapBiomas, a platform that produces annual land cover and land use country maps through a multi-institutional collaboration. A renowned public intellectual and a Skoll Fellow, Azevedo is a Brazil LAB Affiliated Scholar. He has played a key role in the design and implementation of the National Plan to Combat Deforestation and the Amazon Fund. Azevedo was also the creator e general coordinator of the SEEG Network, a system to estimate greenhouse gas emissions for every municipality and state in Brazil. Azevedo is now leading efforts to expand MapBiomas to South American countries and tropical rainforest belts in Asia and Africa.