Mairon G. Bastos Lima started working on bioeconomy governance in 2008. He has since obtained a PhD in environmental studies from the VU University Amsterdam (2014) and published extensively on various themes of environmental politics, particularly in relation to agriculture, social sustainability, and the Global South. Working in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, South and Southeast Asia, he has collaborated on different occasions with the UN Development Programme, the UN Research Institute for Social Development, among others.