Tosi Mpanu-Mpanu is the Director of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Designated National Authority of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). As a member of the Congolese team of climate change negotiators, he chairs the African Group on Climate Change negotiations under the UNFCCC since COP15, in Copenhagen, in December 2009 and will remain in that capacity until COP17 in South Africa, in December 2011.