Education & Career
Career & Internships
October 2021 - Present : Prospect Research Officer at the Cabinet of the Minister of Water and Forests - Ministry of Water and Forests - Côte d'Ivoire.
December 2016 - September 2021 : Programme Officer at the Ministry of Water and Forests (Direction of Reforestation and Forest Cadastre ) - Côte d'Ivoire.
April 2014 – February 2017: Agroforestry Junior Scientist at World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) – Côte d’Ivoire Country Programme; GIS and Mapping Specialist.
July 2014 – December 2014: Preprofessional internship at Direction Régionale des Eaux et Forêts de Yamoussoukro (Ministère des Eaux et Forêts).
October 2012 – November 2012: Internship at Direction Régionale des Eaux et Forêts de Yamoussoukro (Ministère des Eaux et Forêts).
September 2012 – October 2012: Internship at "La Nouvelle Scierie d’Agnibilekrou (NSD’A)".
August 2010 – October 2010: Internship at Agence National d’Appui au Développement Rural (ANADER).
Education
June 2019: PhD in Agricultural Sciences and Rural Engineering (Climatology and Environmental Management) at the Polytechnic Doctoral School of the Félix Houphouët-Boigny National Polytechnic Institute (INP-HB) of Yamoussoukro (Côte d’Ivoire)
January 2014: Diplôme d’Agronomie Approfondie (equivalent to MSc. in Agronomy, Forestry and Environment) at Ecole Supérieure d’Agronomie of Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët-Boigny (INP-HB) of Yamoussoukro (Côte d’Ivoire)
August 2011: Diplôme d’Agronomie Générale (equivalent to BSc. in General Tropical Agriculture) at Ecole Supérieure d’Agronomie of Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët-Boigny of Yamoussoukro (Côte d’Ivoire)
November 2006 – July 2009: Classes Préparatoires Biologiques (An intensive two-years course specialized in biology and mathematics for competitive entrance into top Engineering schools) at Ecole Préparatoire of Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët-Boigny of Yamoussoukro (Côte d’Ivoire)
July 2006: Baccalauréat D (equivalent to High School Diploma) with honours
Other skills
Forestry and Environment: Designing land restoration plan, environmental assessment of projects, Inventory and Evaluation of Natural Resources, Design and implementation of forest management plans
Agronomy and Management: Economic and Financial Analysis and management of agricultural projects, Implementation and management of farms and agricultural and agro-enterprises.
GIS and mapping: GPS, Data Analysis, Acquisition, processing and analysis of satellite imageries (MODIS, Landsat, Sentinel, Aster, RapidEye) for thematic map designing, design and use of databases.
Computer science : Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Publisher, Outlook, Visio), Data collection and analysis software (ODK, R, SPSS, STATISTICA), GIS and Simulation software(QGIS, Grass, ArcGIS, ENVI, Erdas Imagine, Global Mapper, MapInfo, Google Earth, Vensim PLE, C-Roads), Computer graphics software (Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator, Movie Maker, Visual Studio).
Membership
Association of Temperate Agroforestry (AFTA) - USA
British Ecological Society (BES) - UK
Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC)
United Skills network (CS, France)
West African Regional Network (WARN) – GOFC-GOLD