Affiliateship: 2020-2024
Cohort 5
Country (Nationality)
Cameroon
Discipline
Geological, Environmental, Earth & Space Sciences
Bio
Jude Kimengsi who holds a PhD in Resources and Development Geography (2011) is an Associate Professor in Resource and Conservation Geography at the University of Bamenda and the Catholic University of Cameroon (CATUC). From 2017 to 2020, he was an Excellence Initiative Research and Teaching Fellow at the Technische Universität Dresden (Germany). Between 2012 and 2015, he was Consultant on Sustainable Development and Coordinator of Research, Consultancy and Publications Division at the Pan African Institute for Development – West Africa (PAID-WA). Prof Kimengsi has over 65 publications on linked issues of natural resource management. His current research seeks to apply mixed-methods approaches to unbundle the (dis)connections between institutions, livelihoods and natural resource management. Prof Kimengsi has been Visiting Scholar in several European Universities, including TU-Munich and Universität Witten/Herdecke. He held the position of Director of Research (2019-2020) and Head of Department of Geography and Environmental Studies (2014-2017) at CATUC. Prof. Kimengsi is a recipient of the prestigious German Research Foundation (DFG) Grant. He is a consultant with WWF Cameroon and Germany on conservation, livelihoods and development.
He is a reviewer for several journals, including the Journal of Sustainable Development in Africa, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Sustainability, Forest Policy and Economics, Forests, Climate Change, and Social Sciences. Prof. Kimengsi is a DAAD/DIES Regional Expert on grant writing where he has intervened in several African countries including Namibia, Senegal, Ethiopia, Tanzania and the DRC. He is a Young Fellow of the Cameroon Academy of Sciences and Board Member of the Global Environmental Non-Migration Network.