Director General of the Consulting firm XDServices (Experts and Development Services) and Vice-President of Group ARCHE (Actions, Research and Concertation for Habitat and Environment).
Former UN Habitat DRC, Chief Technical Adviser, Head of Country Program, managed and supervised the overall programme implementation with a team of 30 national and international staff and collaborated with relevant stakeholders to provide programme coordination and advisory and consultative services in the area of Community participatory land use planning, Peace and Development , Participatory slum upgrading
programme, Built a $200 million portfolio for the 3rd generation of UN-Habitat country programme (2020-2024, multidonors).
Mr Walendom also served as Secretary General of the Ministry of Territorial Planning, Urbanism and Housing Development of the Republic of Chad, from November 2014 through August 2017. He played a critical role for Habitat III, the 3rd United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, as chairman of the Chad Habitat National Committee, and Chair of the African Experts Group in charge of drafting the African Common Position for Habitat III. He was also selected as expert of the UN-Habitat Housing Policy Unit. Mr Walendom is perfectly bilingual in French and English with working experience in several developing countries. He also worked as Planner with the Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART), a mass transit agency in Dallas, and as Architect-Surveyor with Historic Fort Worth, Texas.
Mr Walendom is consultant of several international organizations, including the World Bank, the African Development Bank, the Islamic Development Bank, UNDP, UNFPA, UNESCO, the Central Africa States’ Bank (BEAC), etc
A national of Chad, Mr Walendom holds an architecture degree from the School of Architecture and Urban Studies in Dakar, Senegal (1990) and a Master’s degree in City and Regional Planning from the University of Texas at Arlington (2000). He is married and father of three. Mr Walendom lives in Gainesville, Virginia, and travels frequently to the African continent.