In May 2019, Bertin Tchikangwa joined the FSC as Sub-regional Coordinator for the Congo Basin. Bertin oversees the Congo basin countries. He is a CameroonianCitizen. Holder of a master’s degree in social sciences, he has been working with biodiversity conservation and sustainable forest management enterprises in central Africa since 1993. He started as Community Conservation Officer with a protected area support project (the EU funded ECOFAC Programme), intermittently between 1993 and December 1998. In the meantime, he has been part of teams of experts charged with (i) the development a set of relevant Criteria and indicators (C&I) for sustainable forest management in the context of Congo basin forests and (ii) the testing of social science methods for assessing social-related C&I within the framework of the CIFOR led “SustainableForest Management: Testing Criteria and Indicators” project. Thereafter, he joined WWF Cameroon and WWF Central Africa Programme Offices, where he successively occupied the positions of: Collaborative management advisor for the Jengi Southeast forests programme, Programme Manager for the Campo-Ma’anlandscape, Senior biodiversity conservation advisor at Cameroon national level, and Regional coordinator of a Capacity building programme on REDD in central Africa (1999-2010) and Cameroon’s Fundraising and Partnership Manager(2015-2017). He has also worked as Certification director for an FSC certified forest company in Cameroon (2010-2012) and a private consultant for several international consultancy firms (2012-2015) and the USFS (2018-2019). Bertin is based in Libreville, Gabon and can be reached on his email: b.tchikangwa@fsc.org