Basile Ikouébé | |
Office: | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
President: | Denis Sassou Nguesso |
Term Start: | 31 May 2007 |
Term End: | 10 August 2015 |
Predecessor: | Rodolphe Adada |
Successor: | Jean-Claude Gakosso |
Birth Date: | 1 July 1946 |
Nationality: | Congolese |
Children: | 6 |
Alma Mater: | École nationale d'administration Institut d'études politiques de Bordeaux |
Basile Ikouébé (born 1 July 1946 in Congo-Brazzaville) is a Congolese former ambassador who is Special representative of the President of the African Union Commission for the Great Lakes region, Head of the Liaison Office for Burundi since October 2017.
Previously, he held the following offices:
- Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (2007 - 2015);[1]
in New York (1998 - 2007);[2]
- Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1996 - 1998);[3]
- Itinerant Ambassador (1994 - 1996);
- Diplomatic Advisor, then, cumulatively; Minister-Chief of Cabinet of the
President of the Republic (1982 – 1992);[4]
- Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1977 - 1979);
- Chief of Staff, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1975 - 1977).
Higher studies in Modern Literature, political science and international relations in Brazzaville, Bordeaux and Paris.
Married, father of 6 children.