Patrice holds a professional Masters degree in Forest Sciences with a specialization in Auditing and Forest Certification from the University of Yaoundé, Cameroon. He has worked as a Program Director in a non-profit organization called APECAM focused on forest and environmental programs and projects. He has also worked with Cameroon Red Cross for ten years where he was a first-aid trainer and Secretary General of a sub-divisional committee in Yaoundé.Between 2010 and 2013, he did consultations in Central Africa on policies and institutional evolution in the forest and environment sector, on forest management, forest and climate change adaptation, and reduction of GHG emission from all land use with international forestry organizations such as CIFOR and ICRAF. Most recently, Patrice has been working assessing a community’s vulnerability and their capacities to reduce disaster risk. Patrice is fluent in both English and French, and travelled to Switzerland in 2011 as a Cameroon Red Cross delegate to participate in the International Youth Workshop on Asylum, Exclusion, and Immigration. He has also been supported by the NEPAD Agency and the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) for scientific communication on climate change in South Africa and Senegal. He is presently a MasterCard Foundation Graduate Scholar in the Faculty of Forestry’s Masters of Sustainable Forest Management at the University of British Columbia where he is acquiring high level training on Sustainable Forest Management.