Jude Kimengsi is Senior Scientist and Leader of the “Landscape Governance and Development” Research Group. From 2020 until March 2026, he led the “Forest Institutions and International Development (FIID)” Research Group at the Chair of Tropical and International Forestry, TU Dresden. As PI of the DFG-sponsored AFRIKA-FORST project on “Fostering the actor-institutions nexus in forest management: Theoretical construction and empirical analysis in sub-Saharan Africa”, he is currently exploring forest governance questions in parts of Central, West and Southern Africa. Between 2020 and 2024- he was PI of the DFG-funded CAM-FORST project on “Past customs, current law: Analyzing the Effects of Endogenous and Exogenous Institutions on Sustainable Forest Management in Cameroon”. Jude holds a PhD in Geography with a focus on the natural resource-development nexus. He was an Excellence Initiative Research Fellow at the Institute of International Forestry and Forest Products, Faculty of Environmental Science of TU Dresden (2017-2019). Between 2012 and 2015, he served as a Consultant on Sustainable Development and Coordinator of Research, Consultancy and Publications Division at the Pan African Institute for Development – West Africa (PAID-WA). He has been engaged in consultancy activities for several organizations such as GIZ, WWF, African Wildlife Foundation (AWF)’s EU-sponsored Programme for the Conservation of Forest Ecosystems in Central Africa (ECOFAC), and the WWF/Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI) on resource mobilization for conservation and livelihoods. He is the Coordinator of the IUFRO Working Group on “African forest politics and governance”, an Editor with the journal Scientific African, and Associate Editor with the journals SN Social Sciences & Frontiers in Sustainable Natural Resource Management. Jude is engaged in advancing the theoretical approach on institutional jelling in the mining-forest interface and other socio-ecological systems.

• Forestland governance Institutions
• Community-based natural resource management
• Migration and livelihood analysis
• Climate adaptation and sustainable development

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