I began my professional career at the Jardin Botanique et Zoologique de Kinshasa before becoming a technical advisor for the Groupe de travail forestier (GTF), a civil society group focused on the environment. I then worked as technical assistant to the President of the Central African Dense Rainforest Commission (CEFDHAC).
My passion for forest issues led me to start volunteering for the Congolese National REDD+ Coordination (CN-REDD), working on the creation and testing of socio-environmental standards for REDD+ around the Luki Biosphere Reserve in Central Kongo. Following this work, I was appointed REDD+ Focal Point for Equateur Province.
I have been very involved in Projet Équateur since it began in 2013, where I worked as a technical assistant in charge of communications and monitoring-evaluation between 2013 and 2016.
Since 2017, I have been Coordinator of the Forests and Change program and Woodwell Climate Research Center’s Focal Point in the DRC.
At the moment I am also interested in the process of climate finance, carbon markets, the new climate economy and net zero, as well as research on the evolution of greenhouse gasses in agricultural areas and dissolved carbon in water and peatland issues.
I am very involved in the implementation of the DRC’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) in relation to Article 6.2 of the Paris Agreement, and I am one of the national experts who sit on the technical consultation platform to advise on climate and environmental issues.
