His Excellency Mr Maxime Nzita Nganga Di Mavambu as Commissioner in charge of Environment, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Rural Development of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) takes oath in Malabo.
Maxime Nzita was Co-Facilitator of the European Union for the Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP) and Co-Facilitator of the Kingdom of Belgium for the CBFP. This is recognition at the highest level in the Central African sub-region. The CBFP extend its warmest congratulations to Maxime Nzita on this distinction and wish him every success in carrying out this important responsibility.
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Following the Conference of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) held on 24 January 2026 in Malabo, the appointment of Mr. Maxime Nzita Nganga Di Mavambu as Commissioner in charge of Environment, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Rural Development reflects a strategic and politically assertive choice by Member States—one aimed at reaffirming sovereign control over the region’s natural capital while building credible, results-oriented partnerships with the international community. With over twenty years of experience in environmental governance, conservation and sustainable development in the Congo Basin, he combines strong technical authority, deep knowledge of national realities, and a proven capacity to engage constructively with international donors and financial institutions.
Trained as an agricultural engineer and economist at the University of Kinshasa, and holding a State Master’s degree in Strategic Management from Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne University, an MBA from Sorbonne Business School, and an Executive MBA from IFG France, he has, since the early 2000s, occupied senior leadership and strategic coordination roles at regional and global levels. His career includes service as Advisor to the Bezos Earth Fund for the Congo Basin, Head of Strategic Partnerships for Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) in Central Africa, and Co-Facilitator of the Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP) for two consecutive mandates on behalf of the European Union and the Kingdom of Belgium. In these roles, he led high-level political dialogues, structured complex alliances, and defended the strategic interests of forest countries in global climate and biodiversity negotiations.
His engagement with the Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law in Austin and the U.S. Army War College has further shaped an integrated vision in which environmental governance, natural resource management, regional security and political stability are treated as inseparable pillars of sovereignty and development. This positioning enables him to engage donors and climate finance partners on clear terms: respect for national and regional priorities, alignment with ECCAS policy frameworks, and the effective translation of international commitments into measurable revenues, productive investments and tangible rural development outcomes.
In line with the vision of the Heads of State and the ECCAS Commission, Mr. Maxime Nzita Nganga Di Mavambu will lead, over the next five years, the new regional policy on Environment, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Rural Development, with the objective of restoring trust among forest States, securing fairer and more efficient financial partnerships, and positioning the Congo Basin not merely as a conservation space, but as a sovereign, strategic and indispensable actor in global environmental governance.
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