Biography

Jérôme Etsong is as disaster risk manager. Has a position as junior researcher at Center for Social Studies (CES) and Institute of Interdisciplinary Research (III) of Coimbra University. He is also affiliated to the School of Geography, Archaelogy and Environmental Studies and Global Change Institute (GCI) at Witwatersrand University Johannesburg. He has a career balanced between academia and practice with a variety of international humanitarian and aid agencies in Cameroon, Brazil, France, Luxemburg, Irland, South-Africa, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Portugal. Holds a master's degree in Public-Private Administration from the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra, Postgraduate in International Relations and European Studies with a specialty in Political Science (Climatique Diplomacy) at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Évora, Bachelor degree in Business Management from Cosendai Adventist University of Nanga-Eboko in Cameroon. Currently Jérôme Etsong Mbang is a PhD Candidate at the sociology program for territory, risks and public policies at Coimbra university, a joint program with the university of Lisbon and Aveiro, FCT fellowship holder (2023.01601.BD). His investigations focus on climate change, vulnerability, limit of human resilience, political and security risks at Mozimasa, and disaster management. On his scientific curriculum, the most frequent terms in the context of scientific production are: good governance, vulnerability reduction, post disaster and reconstruction and recovery, climate change impact and adaptation in fragile and failed states, risk perception, risk factors, civil protection policies, Institutional trust, social risk, extremes meteorogical events, social vulnerability, invisible citizens, natural and technological hazards. environmental migration and displacement, refugee decision-making and refugee integration in host societies;, and organisations' capacity development, climatique diplomacy.