Dr. Neha Hunka is an Assistant Research Professor at the University of Maryland (UMD). She earned a PhD in 2016 in Spaceborne Radar for mapping Forest and Land Use changes. She is currently funded by NASA to coordinate the Committee of Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) Biomass Harmonization activity. The goal of her research is to facilitate the uptake of satellite-based maps of forest carbon/biomass by countries for policy reporting within frameworks of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). She works directly with CEOS agencies and several national governments. She is also co-leading the Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI) R&D Biomass/Emissions Factors Working Group, the CEOS Land Product Validation protocol for Biomass, and the NASA Carbon Monitoring Systems Biomass Working Group. She is a designated user of the ESA-NASA MAAP cloud-computing platform, promoting open-science algorithms for NISAR and BIOMASS mission data. She has previously been a scientific lead and team member in ESA projects and is committed to playing an important role for linking space agencies to global climate policy today.