Fernand Guevara Mekongo Mballa is an Africa Fellow at the Centre for Regional Integration and a Doctoral Candidate at the Catholic University of Central Africa. He has published in the Journal of Law and Emerging Technologies and served as a Mentor for Cameroon for the Yale Young African Scholars Program between 2018 and 2021. Mballa is currently a Member of the Sabin Center Network of Rapporteurs on Climate Change at Columbia University.