Prof Jean Nduwamungu is a member of the Governing Council of the African Forest Forum (AFF). He is a full Professor of Forestry and has been Deputy Dean of the School of Forestry, Ecotourism, and Greenspace Management at the University of Rwanda since November 2017. He holds a PhD degree in Forestry from Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) obtained in 2001. He worked at the Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania from 2002 to 2006. He served as Director of the Land and Forestry Research Centre (LaFREC) and the Forest Management program at the former National Agricultural Research Institute (ISAR) from 2006 to 2008.

He joined the former National University of Rwanda in 2008 and was appointed Director of the Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing, Training and Research Centre of the National University of Rwanda (CGIS-NUR) from 2008 to 2011. He served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Rwanda Natural Resource Authority (RNRA) from 2011 to 2016. He has supervised more than 200 undergraduate students, more than 20 MSc students, and 5 PhD Candidates. He has conducted several research and consultancy projects both at national and international levels.