Georgette Koko (born 16 March 1953"Nouveau gouvernement: Qui sont-ils? Georgette Koko, Marie Missouloukagnè, Solange Mabignath, Denise Mekam'ne"
, bdpgabon.org, 26 January 2006 .) is a

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ese politician who served in the government of Gabon as Deputy Prime Minister for the Environment from January 2006 to October 2009. She has been President of the Economic and Social Council since 2016.

Life and career

Koko was born in

Makokou Makokou is the regional capital of the Ogooué-Ivindo province in Gabon. Its coordinates are . Its altitude is 308 m. Its population in 2004 is around 16,600. The city lies on the Ivindo River and the N4 road. It grew around iron ore mini ...

, located in the

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of Gabon. After studying in Gabon and then in

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, Koko began working at the Ministry of the Environment; she was placed in charge of studies at the National Anti-Pollution Center in April 1989 and became Director of the Environment in August 1995. Later, she was adviser to the Director-General of the Environment from 2002 to 2004, then adviser to the Minister of the Environment beginning in 2004. Koko was appointed to the government as Deputy Prime Minister for the Environment, the Protection of Nature, and Research and Technology on 21 January 2006;List of governments of Gabon
at IZF.net . in that post, she ranked second in the government, behind only Prime Minister Jean Eyeghé Ndong. Her portfolio was modified on 25 January 2007, when she was appointed as Deputy Prime Minister for the Environment, the Protection of Nature, and Urban Affairs, and again on 29 December 2007, when she was appointed as Deputy Prime Minister for the Environment, the Protection of Nature, and Sustainable Development. At the 9th Ordinary Congress of the

Gabonese Democratic Party The Gabonese Democratic Party (, PDG) is a political party in Gabon. It was the dominant political party in Gabonese politics from 1961 until 2023, when it was deposed in a coup d'état against President Ali Bongo. It was also the sole legal ...

(PDG) in September 2008, Koko became one of the party's Vice-Presidents. In the January 2009 Senate election, she was the PDG candidate in the first ''arrondissement'' of Makokou and won the seat. On 8 June 2009, following the death of President

Omar Bongo Omar Bongo Ondimba (born Albert-Bernard Bongo; 30 December 1935 – 8 June 2009) was a Gabonese politician who was the second president of Gabon from 1967 until Death and state funeral of Omar Bongo, his death in 2009. A member of the Gabonese De ...

at a Spanish hospital, Koko announced the news to the Gabonese people on television, saying that he had died of a heart attack. She stressed the importance of preserving state institutions and urged the people to show unity and solidarity "on this painful occasion". After Bongo's son,

Ali Bongo Ondimba Ali Bongo Ondimba (born Alain-Bernard Bongo; 9 February 1959) also known as Ali Ben Bongo is a Gabonese former politician and dictator who was the third president of Gabon from 2009 until he was deposed in a 2023 Gabonese coup d'état, coup in 2 ...

, won the 30 August 2009 presidential election, Koko was dismissed from the government on 17 October 2009. Koko subsequently served as a Senator, and in April 2012 she was designated as President of the PDG Parliamentary Group in the Senate. Following the December 2014 Senate election, Koko was elected as Second Vice-President of the Senate on 27 February 2015. A year later, on 10 March 2016, she was appointed as President of the Economic and Social Council.Carl Nsitou
"Georgette Koko nommée présidente du CES"
Gabonactu, 11 March 2016 .

References

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