Dr. Symphorien Ongolo is an Alexander Von Humboldt Postdoc fellow and the leader of the working group “Global Forestland Policy & Sustainability” at the Chair of Forest and Nature Conservation Policy, University of Göttingen – Germany. Prior to this position, he got his PhD degree in political science from the Institute for Environmental Decisions at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich in 2015. Dr. Ongolo is also graduated from AgroParisTech and Montepellier SupAgro institutes in France where he got a Master degree in environmental sciences in 2010, and from the National Forestry School (ENEF) of Cameroon in 2003. A substantial part of his research focuses on the politics of forestland sustainability, power, forest governance reforms and African politics.
Contact: songolo@aforpolis.org
