Richard Malonga

Congo Country Director

Richard started working for WCS Congo in 1995 as a volunteer research assistant. He helped with the study of the ecology of Bongo antelope in Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park. He was part of the team which initiated the Partnership between WCS, a forestry company (CIB) and the Government of Congo to extend conservation actions to the periphery of the Park. Richard completed his MSc in Conservation Biology at the University of Minnesota and a BSc in Tropical Forest Management at the Marien Ngouabi University. Richard was appointed Director of the Plateau Bateke Landscape Project, then Director of Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park. Since 2019, Richard is the WCS Congo Country Director.

Morgane Cournarie

Technical Director

Morgane is the WCS Congo Technical Director since 2020. Agronomist by training, she completed her MSc in Ecosystem Management and Tropical Forestry in 2015. She then worked for the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) in Lao, supporting the development, implementation and evaluation of projects related to agroecology. She also worked on ecosystem conservation through integrated landscape management in the Nam Kading National Protected Area. Morgane joined WCS in 2019 as Site Coordinator for the Sustainable Wildlife Management (SWM) program in Makira Natural Park in northern Madagascar, a comprehensive program combining livelihoods activities, social marketing, ecological survey and institutional support.

Liliane Gashumba

Director of Finance and Administration

Liliane has 19 years of experience as a Senior Manager in the Banking sector, inter-state institutions and projects in Rwanda. From 2018 to June 2021, she served as Finance Manager for Project San Francisco (PSF)/Center for Family Health Research (CFHR) of Emory University. From 2007 to 2018, she was the Deputy Executive Secretary in Charge of Finance, Administration and Socio-Cultural Affairs in the Economic Community of Great Lakes Countries (Communauté Economique des Pays des Grands Lacs-CEPGL), a regional organization with three countries: Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda.