Committee

Teodyl Nkuintchua is the Congo Basin Strategy and Engagement Leader for the World Resources Institute. He is an international development professional with over 13 years of experience in the field of natural resources management and organisational development and leadership. He is responsible for advancing the WRI’s mission in the Congo basin by engaging with key stakeholders, from the most vulnerable groups through to influential decision makers. Teodyl has previously worked at the Field Legality Advisory Group in Yaoundé and at … Read more

Cyriaque-Rufin Nguimalet is Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography at the University of Bangui, Central African Republic. His research focuses on hydrology and water resources, climate change and climate change adaptation, with peer-reviewed scientific papers published in international journals.  His most recent publications focus on annual and multi-annual rainfall-discharge dynamics into catchments in the Northern Congo Basin, flood hazard occurrence, disaster risk reduction and the implications of low-flow regimes on people in the region. Since 2022 he has been a member of … Read more

Alfred Ngomanda is Executive Director of Gabon’s National Centre for Scientific Research and Technology (CENAREST), and Professor of Forest Ecology at the Institute for Research in Tropical Ecology (IRET). His research focuses on understanding the effects of environmental changes (past, present and future), of natural or anthropogenic origin, on the ecology and plant biodiversity of the forests of the Congo Basin. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed scientific papers on central African tropical forests. He teaches in universities and higher … Read more

Lydie-Stella Koutika is a soil scientist, Director and Founder for Soil Care and Environmental Studies (SCES), Republic of the Congo with over 30 years of experience in applied research on agroecosystems and environment. Her research focuses on soil health and degradation processes to fight food insecurity, biodiversity loss and the harmful effects of climate change. She is a laureate of ‘African Union Kwame Nkrumah Regional Scientific Award for Women’ (2014), The World Academy of Science (TWAS) -Al-Kharafi Prize (2018), Glinka … Read more

Michel Bisa Kibul is Professor of Political Geography and Political Science at the University of Kinshasa. He is the Scientific Secretary of the DRC Governance Observatory and is the Academic Secretary General of the Pan-African University of Governance and Innovation. He holds a PhD in Political Science, and conducts research on land and natural resources governance, migration and sociology of conflict, community resilience, the construction of peace, and the social impacts of climate change, using qualitative and quantitative field research. … Read more

Michael Keller is a Senior Scientist with the US Forest Service International Institute of Tropical Forestry and Distinguished Visiting Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He has published over 200 scientific papers. He was the US scientific leader for the Large-Scale Biosphere Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA) for ten years, followed by being Project Scientist for the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) its guiding the scientific development of the observatory, and then technical leader of the US-Brazilian Sustainable Landscapes Program. … Read more