Emilienne Raoul

Background

Raoul was born in Brazzaville and has a background working in education at the Marien Ngouabi University in Brazzaville.

Career

She additionally served as Minister of Health from 2007 to 2009. Her writings include Alternative Strategies to Fight Against Poverty in Congo (Strategies alternatives de lutte contre la pauvrete au Congo), published in 2000. Following the election, she was appointed to the government as Minister of Social Affairs, Solidarity, Humanitarian Action, Victims of War, and the Family on 18 August 2002.

On 3 March 2007, her ministerial portfolio was altered and she was appointed as Minister of Health, Social Affairs and the Family.

She accordingly succeeded Alphonse Gando at the Ministry of Health on 10 March. In addition to her post in the government, she is President of the Center for the Advancement of Women in Politics as of 2007.

Raoul"s portfolio was reduced on 15 September 2009, when she was appointed as Minister of Social Affairs, Humanitarian Action, and Solidarity. She was succeeded by Georges Moyen at the Ministry of Health on 24 September.

Achievements

• In the May–June 2002 parliamentary election, held at the end of the transitional period, Raoul was elected to the National Assembly as an independent candidate from the first constituency of Brazzaville"s Seventh Arrondissement (Mfilou). She won the seat in the second round of voting.

Membership

From 1998 to 2002, she was a member of the National Transitional Council (CNT), the interim parliament that existed during the transitional period which followed the 1997 civil war.