Team

Jean Joël Loumeto is Senior Lecturer in Plant Ecology at Marien Ngoubi University, in Brazzaville, where he is Director of the Laboratory for Biodiversity, Ecosystemsa and Management. He holds two doctorates in Ecology awarded in France in 1986 and 2002. He has published widely on central African vegetation and ecology. He is the former Head of the Department of Plant Biology. He is an advisor to the Republic of Congo government on Sustainable Development and Climate Change. He is also … Read more

Georges-Noel Longandjo is Senior Lecturer at Institut Supérieur des Techniques Appliquées and Research Fellow at University of Cape Town. Trained as a physicist, his research addresses understanding the climate dynamics over central and southern Africa. He has published several peer-reviewed scientific papers in internationally leading journals. He has more than ten years of experience as a Research Scientist and a Remote Sensing/GIS professional. He is also involved in capacity building, training and institutional development. He was a contributing author on … Read more

Bila-Isia Inogwabini is Professor of Biodiversity at the Catholic University of Congo, in Kinshasa. He is Visiting Scholar at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences at Uppsala. Inogwabini has a BSc in Physics, MSc in Ecology, MA in Advanced Applied Ethics and a PhD in Biodiversity Science. He has published several dozen scientific papers, book chapters and books. His work led to the creation of two new protected areas, the Ngiri Triangle and the Tumba-Lediima Nature Reserves, and the classification of … Read more

Simon Lewis is Professor of Global Change Science at both University College London and the University of Leeds. He is author of over 160 scientific publications on how humans are changing the Earth system, with major discoveries including quantifying the globally significant carbon sink in intact tropical forests, including the first evidence from the Congo Basin, and mapping the world’s largest tropical peatland complex in the heart of the Congo Basin. He co-founded and co-manages the African Tropical Rainforest Observatory, … Read more

Raphael Tshimanga is Professor of Hydrology and Water Resources at the University of Kinshasa, DRC. He is Director of the School of Water and the Congo Basin Water Resources Research Center (CRREBaC, www.crrebac.org). He co-developed the Congo Basin Catchment Information System, a water resources management tool, and is author of more than 100 peer-reviewed publications. His is Co-Chair of CBSI and President of the Central African Group of Experts of Climate Change (GEAC). Currently he is also a Research Fellow … Read more