| François Naoueyama | |||||||||||||
| Office: | Minister of the Environment and Ecology | ||||||||||||
| Term Start: | 19 January 2009 | ||||||||||||
| Term End: | 3 February 2013 | ||||||||||||
| President: | François Bozizé | ||||||||||||
| Primeminister: | Faustin-Archange Touadéra | ||||||||||||
| Predecessor: | Yvonne Mboissona (as Water, Forests, Hunting and Fisheries and the Environment) | ||||||||||||
| Successor: | Mohamed Moussa Dahfane (as Water, Forests, Hunting and Fishing, Environment and Ecology) | ||||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 31 January 1957 | ||||||||||||
| Party: | APRD | ||||||||||||
| Occupation: | Basketball player | ||||||||||||
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François Naoueyama (born 31 January 1957) is a Central African basketball player and politician. He competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics with the Central African Republic national basketball team. He scored 47 points in the team's 7 games.[1]
Naoueyama played for ASOPT.[2] He represented the Central African Republic in the FIBA Africa Championship 1987, where his country won the tournament.[3] He also part of CAR squad in the 1988.[4] In his retirement, he was appointed as the treasurer of Central African Basketball Federation on 27 February 2021.[2]
Naoueyama joined APRD in an unknown year. In January 2009, he was appointed as Minister of the Environment and Ecology.[5] Touadera then reappointed Naoueyama on his cabinet as Minister of Environment and Ecology on 22 April 2011.[6] Under his tenure, he signed a voluntary partnership agreement with the European Union to conserve the ecosystem on 28 November 2011 and proposed an integrated approach in the national REDD implementation.[7] Furthrmore, CAR received Equipment for Identifying Prohibited Substances from France in 2012.[8] Apart from that, he became the speaker at IRENA event in Riocentro in 2012.[9]