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Paul Biyoghé Mba (born 18 April 1953〔("Gabon : Paul Biyoghe Mba nouveau Premier ministre" ), Gaboneco, 17 July 2009 .〕) is a Gabonese politician who was Prime Minister of Gabon from July 2009 to February 2012. A member of the Gabonese Democratic Party (PDG), he served for years as a minister in the government prior to his appointment as Prime Minister. From 2012 to 2015, he was President of the Economic and Social Council of Gabon, and he has again served in the government as First Deputy Prime Minister for Health since 2015. == Background and political career== Biyoghé Mba was born in Donguila, located in the Komo-Mondah Department of Gabon. After studying business administration at the University of Rennes in France,〔 he was Deputy Director of the Gabonese Development Bank,〔〔"Biyoghé Mba Paul", ''Gabon: Les Hommes de Pouvoir'', number 4, (Africa Intelligence ), 5 March 2002 .〕 then Director of Credits at the Bank,〔 from 1977 to 1980. Afterwards he was Adviser to the President of the Republic for Commercial, Industrial, and Investment Affairs from 1980〔〔 to 1983 and Political Adviser to the President from 1983 to 1984.〔 He was subsequently appointed as Deputy Director of the Cabinet of the President for Economic, Financial, and Administrative Affairs〔 in 1984. After President Omar Bongo visited the United States in August 1987 and met with representatives of various American companies, he selected Biyoghé Mba to head a program that would work with American companies to facilitate investment in Gabon.〔Ian M. Davis, ("Gabon celebrates 20 years of progress, reaffirms interest in foreign investment" ), ''Business America'', 11 April 1988.〕 Biyoghé Mba continued to serve as Deputy Director of the Presidential Cabinet until he entered the government as Minister of Trade, Consumption, and the Transfer of Technology in 1989.〔〔 After winning a seat in the 1990 parliamentary election, Biyoghé Mba left the government and served as a Deputy in the National Assembly from 1990 to 1992. He was then appointed as Minister of State Control, Parastatal Reform and Privatization in 1992〔 and was treasurer of President Bongo's 1993 re-election campaign.〔(''Africa International'' ) (1997) 〕 He remained Minister of State Control, Parastatal Reform and Privatization until he resigned from the government on 27 February 1994,〔(''Africa Research Bulletin'' ) (1994), page 11,597.〕 accusing the government of "authoritarian drift" in the wake of riots in Libreville and Port-Gentil.〔(''L'Afrique et l'Europe'' ) (1994), page 182 .〕 He also left the PDG, founding the Common Development Movement (MCD), and he returned to his seat in the National Assembly, serving there again from 1994 to 1996.〔 Speaking on Radio Soleil on 18 December 1996, Mba alleged that falsifications had occurred at polling stations for the second seat from Komo-Mondah Department in the December 1996 parliamentary election.〔(''Histoire du Gabon'' ) (2006), page 289 .〕 In 1997 he was elected to the newly established Senate, and he was Quaestor of the Senate from 1997 to 1999.〔 He returned to the government〔 in January 1999, when he was appointed as Minister of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, Small and Medium-Sized Industries, and the Craft Industry.〔, bdpgabon.org .〕 The MCD merged itself into the PDG in November 2002.〔 Mba was moved to the post of Minister of Trade, Industrial Development, and NEPAD in 2003.〔 He remained in that position until 7 October 2008, when he was instead appointed as Minister of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, and Rural Development.〔(List of governments of Gabon ), IZF.net .〕〔("Gabon : Remaniement du gouvernement gabonais" ), Infosplusgabon, 8 October 2008 .〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paul Biyoghé Mba」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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