Jean Nkuete
Cameroonian politician
Jean Nkuete (born 1944) is a Cameroonian politician and economist who has been Secretary-General of the Central Committee of the Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (RDPC), the ruling political party in Cameroon, since 2011. He was Executive Secretary of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC) from 1999 to 2006 and served in the government of Cameroon as Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development from 2006 to 2011 (with the rank of deputy prime minister beginning in 2007).
Political career
Nkuete, a Roman Catholic belonging to the Bamileke ethnic group, was born at Balessing in Menoua Department in 1944. He received his higher education in Italy from 1963 to 1969 and then returned to Cameroon, where he began working at the Ministry of Planning in 1969 after obtaining his PHD. He was Head of the Department of General Planning from August 1969 to 1972 and Deputy Director of Planning and Regional Development from August 1974 to 1975. Nkuete was then appointed to work under Prime Minister Paul Biya as Director of Economic and Technical Affairs in 1975, and subsequently he was Technical Adviser to the Cabinet of the Prime Minister from October 1977 to September 1981. Nkuete was Deputy Director-General of PARIBAS-Cameroon Bank from September 1981 to April 1983.
After Biya became president, he appointed Nkuete as Deputy Secretary-General of the Presidency, with the rank of Minister, on April 13, 1983. Considered "Biya's most trusted associate", Nkuete was promoted to the post of Secretary-General of the Government on November 21, 1986. As Secretary-General of the Government, with the rank of Minister, Nkuete was responsible for coordinating ministries. He was said to have a "bad public image" at that time.
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