Nicolas MBENGUE

Nicolas MBENGUE is Operations Coordinator at Cegep de la Gaspésie. His work spans all international cooperation projects coordinated by the Dakar Office. He has over seven years of professional experience in non-profit organisations as an expert, project manager and project leader. He has contributed to the implementation of projects on climate change (adaptation and mitigation), biodiversity conservation, particularly in relation to marine and coastal ecosystems, forest and fisheries resource management, food security, and the empowerment of women and girls. Gender equality is a key theme in all the projects he has coordinated or collaborated on. He worked on an international programme dedicated to women's rights in Senegal (Women Deliver programme) on a commission on access to energy resources in 2020. In the same year, he coordinated the implementation of an online training platform for young people aged 18 to 35 on issues related to climate change.

In addition, he is currently a doctoral candidate in Ecology and Ecosystem Management at the Faculty of Science and Technology at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar. He specialises in data science, a skill he uses in his research activities and also in his organisation to provide.