M.A. Sheila Kong Mukwele

Profile

Academic positionCurrently without academic position
Research fieldsInternational Public Law,Foreign Policy and International Systems
KeywordsLegal, policy and institutional architecture, Regional Cooperation, Energy Poverty and Security, Ocean, Gulf of Guinea
Honours and awards

2022: The United Nations-the Nippon Foundation Fellowship (3 months at the UN Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea (DOALOS) in New York and 6 months as a guest researcher at the Norwegian Centre for the Law of the Sea, The UiT Artic University, Tromso, Norway

2022: Travel Grant to take part as a Table facilitator (Transboundary cooperation + Sustainable blue economy) in the 5th International MSPforum (21 November 2022 in Barcelona, Spain)

2021: United National Summer Academy 2021 Scholarship

2021: Yeosu Academy of the Law of the Sea Scholarship

2020: Scholarship granted by The Hague Academy of International Law for the 2020 Winter Courses

2019: Scholarship granted for participation in the Summer Academy on the Continental Shelf in Arusha, Tanzania

2019: Travel grant of the U.S. NOAA Ocean Acidification Program to attend the 4th GOA-ON International Workshop in Hangzhou, China (14-17 April 2019)

2019: WWF Russel E. Train Education for Nature Professional Development Grants (PDGs)

2018: GIZ and the City of Edmonton sponsorship (Travel and Accommodation) for participation in the CitiesIPCC Conference in Edmonton, Canada, 03-07 March 2018

2018: UNESCO-IOC funding for participation in the 6-24 August and 3 – 6 September 2018 GEF IW: LEARN Online and face-to-face Ocean Governance Course (Dakar, Senegal)

2017: Partial Scholarship for the 2017 Summer Academy of the International Foundation for the Law of the Sea (IFLOS)

2017: The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation International Climate Protection Fellowship (2017-2018 session)

2011: KOIKA Grant for Participation in the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg, Germany

Current contact address

CountryCameroon
CityYaounde
InstitutionMinistere des Relations Exterieures

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Alexander ProelßInstitut für Umwelt- und Technikrecht (IUTR), Universität Trier, Trier
Erick Gankam TamboUNU-ViE, United Nations University, Bonn
Start of initial sponsorship01/03/2017

Programme(s)

2016International Climate Protection Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2026Sheila Kong Mukwele & Erick Gankam Tambo “Achieving energy security in the Gulf of Guinea: harnessing ocean energy through regional cooperation”. In: Marine Development, Springer for Nature, 2026,
2024KONG MUKWELE Sheila: “Enforcing ocean governance cooperation through transboundary marine protected areas: establishing opportunities and overcoming challenges”. In: Chapter 8 in Governing Oceans, Edward Elgar Publishing, https://www.elgaronline.com/doi/10.4337/9781035315598.00015, 2024,
2024Hervé ENDOMO ENDOMO and Kong Mukwele Sheila “La protection des mers régionales africaines à l’épreuve de la pollution plastique”. In: Neptunus, e.revues, Nantes Université, https://cdmo.univ-nantes.fr/, Vol.30, 2024,
2022KONG MUKWELE Sheila “Regional Ocean Governance in the Southeast Atlantic Subregion and the Creation of Transboundary Marine Protected Areas (Overcoming Selfinterests and Apprehensions for the Benefits of fighting together against Common Challenges)”. In: United Nations – The Nippon Foundation of Japan Fellowship Programme 2022, https://www.un.org/oceancapacity/sites/www.un.org.oceancapacity/files/kong_mukwe le_2022_ thesis_final.pdf., 2022,