Dona Jean-Claude HOUSSOU

Bio

M. Dona Jean-Claude HOUSSOU Former Minister of Energy, Water and Mines of Republic of Benin. Former Minister of Energy of Republic of Benin Grand Officer of the order of merit of Benin More than 3 decades of technical and political experience in the Energy sector, mainly in nuclear, thermal and solar photovoltaic system at Electricité de France (EDF), in the Government of Benin and in the surrounding African regions. He graduated with an engineering degree from SUP GALILEE (France) and joined EDF in 1991, after 3 years teaching mathematics in High school. Fulfilling a range of roles in 3 different nuclear power plants. He respectively assumes the mantle of operations’ human capacity building manager, operations’ deputy manager and instrumentation and control manager. From 2005 to 2008 he oversaw the nuclear power plants safety advisory Team at corporate level. From 2008 to 2012 he was a thermal power plant Manager and then the thermal generation director in French West Indies, before joining international development department of EDF in April 2012 in Paris, as Access to Energy in developing countries’ Manager. Besides, he was EDF support in Congo Brazzaville and in Cameroon, the Chairman of ERA SA, Senegalese Rural Electrification company, subsidiary of EDF, and board member of several EDF subsidiaries in Botswana, Senegal and South Africa, until appointed in April 2016 as Minister of Energy, Water, and Mines of Republic of Benin. From October 2017 to April 2023, he was appointed Minister of Energy. He was also Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Volta Basin Authority (VBA: Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Mali and Togo), and Chairman of Committee of Ministers of West African Gas Pipeline Authority (WAGPA: Benin, Ghana, Nigeria, Togo), Co Chairman of High Council Interstate (Benin and Togo) of Electric Community of Benin (CEB), President of the ECOWAS Energy ministers network and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Alliance for Biodigester in west and central Africa (AB-AOC: Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo). https://www.linkedin.com/in/dona-jean-claude-houssou-39235b10b https://www.facebook.com/dona.jc.houssou/ dehous@yahoo.fr