Corneille Ewango is Professor of Tropical Forest Ecology and Management at the University of Kisangani, DRC. He was Scientific Director of the Centre de Formation et de Recherche en Conservation Forestière (CEFRECOF), a research and training centre in the Ituri Forest (2003-2006 and 2012-2017). He led the DRC team who mapped the central Congo peatlands, and is Project Scientist for the DRC Peatlands Management Unit and National Forest Inventories, providing scientific and technical support to government. He has published over 100 scientific papers and is a member of the Central African Group of Experts of Climate Change (GEAC). He is a recipient of the prestigious Goldman Environment Prize (2005).
