Guy Nzouba-Ndama

Guy Nzouba-Ndama (born 17 July 1946) is a Gabonese politician who was President of the National Assembly of Gabon from 1997 to 2016. He previously served in the government of Gabon as Minister of National Education from 1987 to 1990 and was President of the Parliamentary Group of the Gabonese Democratic Party (Parti démocratique gabonais, PDG) from 1990 to 1996.

Nzouba-Ndama was born at Koulamoutou, located in Lolo-Bouenguidi Department; he is an ethnic Nzebi. After studying in France, he began teaching philosophy in September 1975, and he was appointed as Director of Orientation at the Directorate-General of Scholarships and Internships in November 1975, while continuing to teach. In 1980, he became Director-General of Scholarships and Internships, remaining in that post until 1983.

Nzouba-Ndama was first appointed to the government as Minister-Delegate under the Minister of State for Trade and Industry in March 1983. He was then appointed as Minister-Delegate under the Fourth Deputy Prime Minister for the Land-Survey Register, Housing and Lodgings in January 1986 before being promoted to the position of Minister of National Education on 18 November 1987. In the midst of a strike involving teachers, President Omar Bongo dismissed him from his post as Minister of National Education on 26 February 1990; subsequently he was Political Adviser to President Bongo from February to November 1990. In the 1990 parliamentary election, he was elected to the National Assembly as a candidate in Koulamoutou, and he was the President of the PDG Parliamentary Group from 1990 to 1996. He was re-elected to the National Assembly in the December 1996 parliamentary election. Following the latter election, Nzouba-Ndama was elected as President of the National Assembly on 27 January 1997.

Nzouba-Ndama retained his parliamentary seat in the December 2001 parliamentary election and was re-elected as President of the National Assembly on 25 January 2002; he received 111 votes, with one deputy voting against him and seven abstaining. As President of the National Assembly, he visited Cameroon in February 2006.

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