{"id":12351,"date":"2026-06-09T18:31:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T18:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/staff\/henri-tonnang\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T08:53:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T08:53:43","slug":"henri-tonnang","status":"publish","type":"staff","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/staff\/henri-tonnang\/","title":{"rendered":"Tonnang, Henri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Le Dr Henri Tonnang, un Camerounais, est le chef de l'unit\u00e9 des donn\u00e9es et des m\u00e9thodes de recherche \u00e0 l'Institut international d'agriculture tropicale, \u00e0 Nairobi, au Kenya. Henri est sp\u00e9cialis\u00e9 dans le traitement, la mod\u00e9lisation, la simulation et la visualisation de donn\u00e9es, transformant des ensembles de donn\u00e9es complexes en informations exploitables qui soutiennent les transferts de connaissances \u00e0 fort impact et l'\u00e9laboration de politiques fond\u00e9es sur des preuves. Sa capacit\u00e9 \u00e0 faire le lien entre la recherche scientifique et les applications pratiques en a fait un partenaire de confiance pour les gouvernements, les institutions de recherche et les organisations internationales. Au cours des deux derni\u00e8res d\u00e9cennies, Henri a travaill\u00e9 avec des institutions telles que l'IITA, l'ICIPE, la FAO et des centres du CGIAR, tout en d\u00e9veloppant des partenariats mondiaux avec des universit\u00e9s et des agences de d\u00e9veloppement. Son leadership a favoris\u00e9 l'innovation dans la pr\u00e9vision des ravageurs, l'agriculture num\u00e9rique et les solutions intelligentes face au climat en Afrique et dans le monde. Il est titulaire d'une licence et d'une ma\u00eetrise en physique (1996, 1998), d'une ma\u00eetrise en automatique (2004) et d'un doctorat en math\u00e9matiques appliqu\u00e9es (2008). Henri est largement reconnu pour sa promotion de solutions num\u00e9riques inclusives, scientifiques et tourn\u00e9es vers l'avenir pour relever les d\u00e9fis urgents en mati\u00e8re d'agriculture, de sant\u00e9 et de durabilit\u00e9 environnementale.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Henri Tonnang, a Cameroonian, is the Head of Data and Research Methods Unit at the International Institute of Tropical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12352,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"full-width-container","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"disabled","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":[],"ast-content-background-meta":[]},"science-area":[],"program":[],"location":[28],"hub":[62],"crop":[],"staff-type":[],"class_list":["post-12351","staff","type-staff","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-kenya","hub-eastern-africa"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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