Joseph Fomunung

Joseph S. Fomunung is a Political Economist/researcher trained at Indiana State University and the University of Wisconsin, USA. He earned his Bachelor’s Degree and Master’s at Indiana State in International Relations with heavy concentration in Comparative Development. Majoring in Political Science and minoring in Economics inspired his interest in economic development and global inequities. Returning to his native Cameroon in the mid- eighties, he actively engaged in research on development and became a part-time consultant to the European Union office in Yaoundé. He contributed scholarly articles in the European Union trade and development magazine the EEC-ACP Courier.

Between 1986 and 1991, he wrote several articles on development in the Cameroon government daily Cameroon Tribune in which he regularly critiqued corruption and mismanagement and their impacts on development. In 2000, he was retained as a consultant to the United Nations 2000 Project Cameroon Office. After the 1992 United Nations Rio Earth Summit, he quickly established himself as an expert in Rio’s Agenda 21 for the Tourism industry. This new interest took him to sixteen countries on five continents where he presented papers and/or chaired specialized committees. Between 1997 and 1998 he taught Ecotourism/Environmentally sustainable Tourism at the University of Yaoundé, thus becoming that institution’s pioneer lecturer in that discipline. He resides in Dallas, Texas, USA with his family from where he continues research on development issues and travels to share his knowledge and expertise. He is retired but not tired.