Speakers

Member of the Government of the CEMAC Commission since June 2023, Mr. MBOGO Ngabo Seli is specifically in charge of the Common Market Department.

He capitalizes on a professional career that began in West Africa, particularly in Burkina Faso where, having barely completed his higher education, his career began in 1998 in the banking sector (BICIA-B), then at the Burkinabe National Lottery (LONAB, a parastatal company) and in the advertising sector (Partner).

He was recruited in 2002 as a senior management officer at the head office of the Bank of Central African States (BEAC) in Yaoundé (Cameroon), where he served until 2009 in both the Studies Department and the Communications Unit attached to the Governor's Office.

Seconded to the Chadian administration between 2010 and 2017, his return to Chad will be marked by different levels of responsibilities and progressively elevated functions. Having first distinguished himself as Director of the Cabinet of the Minister of Finance and Budget from 2010 to 2013, then as Director of the Cabinet of the Minister of Regional Planning, Urban Planning and Housing from 2013 to 2014, he was recruited in July 2014 by the international banking group Société Générale to assume the responsibilities of Deputy General Manager (in charge of Operations, Legal, Compliance, Electronic Money and Quality) of its Chadian subsidiary (SG Chad).

Fifteen months later, in November 2015, he was called to the Government of the Republic of Chad and was given the post of Minister of Land Use Planning, Urban Development and Housing. He was then promoted to Minister of Finance and Budget in August 2016.

Having completed his mission at the level of the Chadian senior public administration, he returned to the Central Bank in May 2017 and returned to the institution's headquarters in Yaoundé to serve as Principal Authorized Officer in the International Relations Department. Appointed Advisor to the National Director of the BEAC for Chad, he took up his new position in N'Djamena in March 2021. In parallel with his duties at the BEAC, Mr. MBOGO will be chosen to lead the Sectoral Public Policy Commission during the Inclusive and Sovereign National Dialogue (DNIS) organized in Chad from August to October 2022.

In the various positions held or intuitu personae, he has also been part of numerous decision-making bodies of institutions or parastatal companies: Administrator of the National Cement Company of Chad (SONACIM); Administrator and Chairman of the Audit Committee of the Commercial Bank Chad (CBT); Administrator of the National Museum of Chad; first Chadian Administrator of the African Guarantee and Economic Cooperation Fund (FAGACE). In his ministerial responsibilities, he also assumes responsibilities on the scale of the African continent: Chairman of the Housing and Urban Development Subcommittee of the Specialized Technical Committee No. 8 of the African Union in 2015-2016 (in his capacity as Minister in charge of urban planning and housing) and Chairman of the Committee of Ministers of Finance (F10) of the African Union in 2016-2017 (as Minister of Finance and Budget). Since July 2023, he has represented the CEMAC Commission on the Board of Directors of the Development Bank of Central African States (BDEAC).

Holder of a Master's degree in information and communication sciences and techniques, public relations and communication option from the University of Ouagadougou (Top of his class), Mr. MBOGO also holds an Executive MBA in Strategic Management from the Catholic University of Central Africa, an Executive Certificate in Strategy issued by HEC Paris & First Finance Institute, and other certificates. Since June 2022, he has been teaching Administrative Reforms and the Digitalization of Public Administration at the National School of Administration (ENA) of Chad, as part of the National Cycle of Improvement - Management of the Performance of Public Administration.

President of the Association "Act for the city we love", mainly dedicated to the economic, social and cultural development of the city of Sarh (Moyen-Chari, Chad), he also chaired the Golf Club of N'Djamena, a sporting discipline he particularly likes. Member of the Lions Club since 1999, he was President of the Yaoundé Padouk Club and Secretary of District 403 B1 (Cameroon, Gabon, Congo and Chad).