Born on the 27th of June 1972 in Dschang, in the West Region of Cameroon, Navy Captain ATONFACK GUEMO Cyrille Serge is a holder of a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Sciences obtained in 1994 from the University of Yaoundé II. He is also a 1998 graduate of the higher military school of management and maritime law in Toulon, France. In 2007, he obtained a Master’s Degree in Maritime Law from the European Institute of Marine Studies (Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer - IUEM) in Brest, France, and concomitantly completed a full cycle of training on International Humanitarian Law offered by the International Institute of Humanitarian Law in San Remo, Italy. To complete his career in maritime law, he benefited from a professional internship at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg, Germany in 2008. Between 2010 and 2013, he occupied various Staff positions at Cameroon’s Ministry of Defence. During this period, he was also a lecturer on Maritime Law at the Research Centre for Political and Strategic Studies (Centre de Recherches et d’Etudes Politiques et Stratégiques - CREPS) of the University of Yaounde II. Since July 2013, he is the rapporteur of the Operational Cell of the National Committee setup to follow up the implementation of decisions stemming from the Summit of Heads of State and Government, members of ECCAS, ECOWAS, and GGC on maritime safety and security in the Gulf of Guinea, held in Yaounde on the 24th and 25th of June 2013. The Operational Cell’s first project was the Interregional Coordination Centre (ICC) for maritime safety and security in Central and West Africa. Navy Captain ATONFACK GUEMO currently serve, since March 2016, as the Technical adviser to the Minister of Defence, and concomitantly the Head of the Communication Division, Spokesperson for the Cameroonian Armed Forces, since February 2019. Navy Captain ATONFACK GUEMO has published many articles on maritime security, and has been awarded several national and foreign decorations.