Antoine holds a master’s degree equivalent in sociology and has 17 years of experience in natural resource management in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He joined AWF in 2005 as a technical assistant, then was promoted to serve as a program impact monitoring officer. From 2011 to 2015, he worked as project manager of AWF’s World Bank-funded Forest and Nature Conservation Project, then as senior project manager of USAID's Central Africa Regional Program for the Environment/ Central Africa Forest Ecosystems Conservation. In 2018, he was recruited by the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) Biodiversity Programme as technical advisor for Lomami and Kahuzi-Biega national parks, but he returned to AWF in 2020. He currently is the AWF DRC Country Coordinator and Deputy Chief of the Party of the USAID/African Parks Network Community Based Counter Wildlife Trafficking activity project.