Gabriel Kamundala

Gabriel Kamundala was born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). He has worked as a researcher at the Expertise centre on mining governance at the Université Catholique de Bukavu (CEGEMI/UCB) in the DRC, for 10. He has conducted numerous studies on a variety of subjects, including the formalization of artisanal and small-scale mining in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, the impact of gold exploitation on local communities, the role of women in mining, and the relationship between artisanal mining and poverty reduction. Currently, he is a PhD student at the University of Zurich at the Department of Geography, where he is working on Africa’s Extractive industries frontier, specifically on the political economy of artisanal and small-scale gold labour in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).