Jules Fontaine Sambwa

Jules-Fontaine Sambwa was a Zairean political officeholder and economist.

Biography

Jules-Fontaine Sambwa Pida Nbagui was born in Mbandaka, on 12 November 1940. He died on 4 March 1998. After graduating in Economy and Finance at the University of Brussels in 1967, he exercised the following high offices in the Republic of Zaire:

Economic council at the President’s Office
Assistant director at the President’s Office and then, council at the Bank of Zaire
Administrator at the SOFIDE
Governor of the Bank of Zaire
Assistant director at the President’s Office
Governor of the Bank of Zaire
Minister of Economy and Industry
State minister of the Plan
Vice-premier Commissioner of the Zaire government in charge with the economic sectors
First commissioner of State of the Zaire government
President of the Court of Accounts
Minister of Finance of Zaire

At the same time, he was also a professor at the University of Kinshasa where, as part of the Faculty of Economy, he was "titular to the class of international economy".
Visiting Europe since 1991, Jules-Fontaine Sambwa carried on his research and studies on the development of Sub-Saharan Africa until his death.
His care for a positive contribution to the reflection of diverse intellectuals on the emergence of rules of law in Sub-Saharan Africa made him accept the office of President of the “Zaire Club 2000” in 1994.

Awards

He had been promised to the following honorary distinctions:

Grand Cordon de l’Ordre national du Léopard ;
Commandeur de l’Ordre de la Couronne ;
Commandeur de l’Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur ;
Commandeur de l’Ordre national de la République tunisienne.