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Nick Radford
Chief of Party to USAID/DRC
Nick has been working in wildlife conservation in the Congo Basin since 2015. A Biological Sciences graduate from Oxford University, Nick had a 10-year career in politics and the private sector in Britain before moving to Africa. He now leads the tourism development program in Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park, and serves as the WCS Chief of Party to USAID/DRC. He is particularly interested in business planning for protected areas, conservation economics, and the interface between the private sector and wildlife conservation.
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Nick Radford
Chief of Party to USAID/DRC
Nick has been working in wildlife conservation in the Congo Basin since 2015. A Biological Sciences graduate from Oxford University, Nick had a 10-year career in politics and the private sector in Britain before moving to Africa. He now leads the tourism development program in Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park, and serves as the WCS Chief of Party to USAID/DRC. He is particularly interested in business planning for protected areas, conservation economics, and the interface between the private sector and wildlife conservation.
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Norbert Gami
Socio-Economic Principal Technical Advisor
Norbert defended his PhD in Anthropology in 1992 at the University of Aix-Marseille III in France (Human Ecology Laboratory). Since 1995, he has been working as a conservation anthropologist, involved in the development and enhancement of protected areas in Central Africa. He is a specialist in communities’ engagement in the sustainable management of natural resources in the Congo Basin, and has worked in Cameroon, Congo, DRC, Gabon, CAR and São Tomé and Príncipe. Since 2015, Norbert is the WCS Congo Principal Technical Advisor in Socio-Economics.
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Norbert Gami
Socio-Economic Principal Technical Advisor
Norbert defended his PhD in Anthropology in 1992 at the University of Aix-Marseille III in France (Human Ecology Laboratory). Since 1995, he has been working as a conservation anthropologist, involved in the development and enhancement of protected areas in Central Africa. He is a specialist in communities’ engagement in the sustainable management of natural resources in the Congo Basin, and has worked in Cameroon, Congo, DRC, Gabon, CAR and São Tomé and Príncipe. Since 2015, Norbert is the WCS Congo Principal Technical Advisor in Socio-Economics.
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Onononga Jean Robert
Project Manager - Wildlife Crime Unit
Jean Robert started to work for conservation in 1996 with IUCN in Conkouati Faunal Reserve, after his undergraduate degree at the Marien Ngouabi University in Brazzaville. He joined the Goualougo Triangle Apes Project (GTAP) in 2001, where he contributed to the long-term monitoring of apes. In 2009, he completed his MSc in Primate Conservation at Oxford Brookes University in the UK. He served as Project Manager of GTAP from 2009 to 2011. In 2012, Jean Robert became the Principal Technical Advisor for PROGEPP. In 2016, he was assigned to implement and lead the Wildlife Crime Unit and became Senior Advisor in 2022.
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Onononga Jean Robert
Project Manager - Wildlife Crime Unit
Jean Robert started to work for conservation in 1996 with IUCN in Conkouati Faunal Reserve, after his undergraduate degree at the Marien Ngouabi University in Brazzaville. He joined the Goualougo Triangle Apes Project (GTAP) in 2001, where he contributed to the long-term monitoring of apes. In 2009, he completed his MSc in Primate Conservation at Oxford Brookes University in the UK. He served as Project Manager of GTAP from 2009 to 2011. In 2012, Jean Robert became the Principal Technical Advisor for PROGEPP. In 2016, he was assigned to implement and lead the Wildlife Crime Unit and became Senior Advisor in 2022.
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