Professor Aloys NDAYISENGA was awarded a PhD in Geography and Planning from the University of Toulouse II-Le Mirail (now the University of Toulouse II-Jean-Jaurès) in France in June 2010. Since then, he has been a lecturer and researcher in the Department of Geography, Environment and Population (SGEP) at the University of Burundi. From 2012 to 2018, he was Head of the same department. From 2019 to the present day, he has been Head of the Master’s programme in “Societies, Power, Territories and Sustainable Development” (SPTD) within the same department. He is a member of the CREDSR (Research Centre for the Development of Societies in Reconstruction). His research covers a range of topics: the environment, spatial planning, population, urban areas, rural areas, etc.