Sagesse Nziavake is a national of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and holds a postgraduate diploma in Biodiversity Management and Sustainable Forest Management from the University of Kisangani (UNIKIS) since 2018. She works in the Yangambi landscape, in local community forest concessions (CFCL) with the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR). Her fields of interest are environmental research, development economics, biodiversity management, land-use planning, human-forest aspects (livelihoods of local communities, human-wildlife conflicts), sustainable development, wildlife inventory, gender and youth.