Emmanuel Issoze-Ngondet
| Emmanuel Issoze-Ngondet | |
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| Prime Minister of Gabon | |
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Assumed office 29 September 2016 |
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| President | Ali Bongo Ondimba |
| Preceded by | Daniel Ona Ondo |
| Minister for Foreign Affairs | |
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In office 28 February 2012 – 28 September 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Paul Toungui |
| Succeeded by | Pacôme Moubelet-Boubeya |
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2 April 1961 Makokou, Gabon |
| Political party | PDG |
Franck Emmanuel Issoze-Ngondet (born 2 April 1961) is a Gabonese diplomat and politician who has been Prime Minister of Gabon since September 2016.
A career diplomat, Issoze-Ngondet was Gabon's Permanent Representative to the United Nations from August 2008 to January 2009. Afterwards he served in the government of Gabon as Minister of Energy from January 2009 to June 2009 and then briefly as Minister of Relations with Parliament in mid-2009. He was again appointed as Permanent Representative to the UN in November 2009. In March 2010, Issoze-Ngondet was the President of the United Nations Security Council.
Issoze-Ngondet was appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs on 28 February 2012. After more than four years in that post, he was appointed as Prime Minister on 28 September 2016.
Born in Makokou, Issoze-Ngondet is a member of the Bakota ethnic group. He began working at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation in 1988; initially he was an Adviser to the Ministry, and he was then Studies Officer (Chargé d'études) at the Division of Treaties and International Conventions from 1988 to 1990. He was posted in Yaoundé as Cultural Counsellor at Gabon's Embassy to Cameroon from 1990 to 1991, and he was First Counsellor at the Embassy to the United Kingdom from 1991 to 1993. Subsequently he was First Counsellor at the Embassy to Canada from 1993 to 1994 and First Counsellor at the Embassy to Germany from 1994 to 1997.
Issoze-Ngondet was the Foreign Ministry's Director for the Americas from 1997 to 1998 and was its Director for Europe from 1998 to 2000. He was then posted in Seoul as Ambassador to South Korea from 2000 to 2006; during that time, he was additionally accredited as Ambassador to Thailand beginning in 2003 and as Ambassador to the Philippines beginning in 2004.
In June 2006, Issoze-Ngondet was posted to Addis Ababa as Ambassador to Ethiopia as well as Permanent Representative to the African Union, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, and the United Nations Environment Programme. He was additionally appointed as Ambassador to Kenya in August 2007, while continuing to reside in Addis Ababa. During the same period, Issoze-Ngondet was also the Chairman of the African Union's Sub-Committee on Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons. Amidst discussions regarding the creation of a United States of Africa in early 2008, he suggested that Gabon's place in the proposed continental state could be comparable to California's place in the United States. Acknowledging with amusement that Gabon was not comparable to California in size, he then suggested that it might instead be comparable to Los Angeles.
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