Dr Apollinaire William is Deputy Executive Director of ARCOS
Network since 2020. Apollinaire is a professionally qualified environmental
scientist, with over 10 years of experience in ecology and conservation at
international, regional and national level. He is a trainer in spatial planning
and analysis by training. He coordinated capacity building for spatial analysis
and planning through the Regional Network for Educators and Practitioners in
the Albertine Rift region. He was Program Manager for the Center for Tropical
Ecology and Conservation at Antioch University New England in the US from 2010 to 2013. He led the development of a certificate program in practical
spatial planning and analysis and coordinated GIS/Remote Sensing projects at Antioch
University New England in 2014-2016. Dr William worked with The Nature
Conservancy (TNC) as the Lake Tanganyika Spatial Scientist for the Africa
Programme since 2017. In this position, he provided management support for the
design and implementation of community-based smart-agriculture, afforestation
and agroforestry by providing trainings to community agricultural workers to
bridge scarcity gap among government extension services in most remote areas
within the Lake Tanganyika Basin.
Before joining the ARCOS Network, Dr William worked as
Research Fellow at the Center of Excellence in Biodiversity and Natural
Resource Management in Rwanda, where he supported research and consultation
works that include for example the development of management plans for degraded
catchments in Rwanda in the face of environmental and climate change. Apollinaire has a long experience in
community-centered capacity building for sustainable natural resource
management. He has been involved in capacity building for natural resource
management and climate change adaptation planning in academic, governmental and
research communities in Zambia, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi and Dr.Congo and
USA since 2010. Apollinaire did his undergraduate studies in Biology at the
National University of Rwanda and pursued his MSc in GIS and Remote Sensing at
the University of Redlands in the USA. He successfully completed his PhD in
Environmental Studies at Antioch University New England in the USA, where he
also received a Murdoch’s award for distinguished, innovative scholar in 2016.
Dr William loves hiking, singing and most of all working
hand-in-hand with various stakeholders for sustainable solutions to
environmental challenges.
