Aurélie Flore Koumba Pambo is the Co-Facilitator of the Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP). She is also a member of the National Select Committee which aims to integrate Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) into the Gabonese corpus. Her expertise in MEAs covers various instruments (UNESCO-MAB, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS)), where she participates in statutory meetings and Conferences of the Parties as head of delegation.
She is the first person from the African continent to be elected Chair of the Plants Committee of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), a position she has held since August 2019. She holds a PhD in Biology – Plant Cellular and Molecular Physiology from the University of Paris VII, with congratulations from the Jury, and has a solid academic background in the biology of plant organisms, with a Master II degree that won the IRD Christiane DORE prize for the best scientific contribution.