Experts & Staff

Gideon has served as Principal Consultant for WRI’s activities in Cameroon since 2008, focusing on the production of interactive forest atlases in Cameroon in coordination with the Ministry of Forest and WIldlife (MINFOF). He is also involved in capacity building activities and training on the use of the interactive forestry atlas and other geospatial tools across Cameroon.

He previously worked with WRI for three years under the former Global Forest Watch Initiative. Prior to joining WRI, Gideon worked for the Mount Cameroon Darwin Initiative Project in Limbe Botanic Garden-Cameroon and the Tropenbos Cameroon Programme, where he contributed to the collection and analysis of data for the development of sustainable forest management strategies in Cameroon. From 2003-2005, he served as GIS/RS officer for the Department of Forest Management - Vicwood Thanry, developing and managing a cartographic database for forest concessions in Cameroon, CAR, and Republic of Congo, and producing maps for various forest management purposes.

Gideon holds an MSc. degree in Rural Land ecology from the International Institute for Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) in the Netherlands and a BSc degree in Botany from the University of Buea in Cameroon. He is a specialist in GIS and remote sensing applications, tropical forest inventories, forest management, and mapping.