Throughout his 20-year career he has specialised in managing programs focusing on the sustainable management of tropical forests, with eight years of field experience in the Congo Basin. This field experience has provided him the opportunity to work directly with a diverse range of partners, including forest-dependent communities in South-East of Cameroon to support social forestry, with the private sector logging companies to raise awareness on the concept of sustainable forest management and accompany them through the certification process of their forest concessions.
Finally, as a German advisor to the Minister of Forests and Wildlife he was able to capitalise on his experience from the ground to monitor