Pauline Irène Nguene, is a Cameroonian politician and Minister of Social Affairs in the third and subsequent Philémon Yang governments.
Pauline Irène Nguene is originally from the village of Minka (Makak), in the Nyong-et-Kéllé department in the Centre region. She earned a degree in Petroleum Engineering from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in the United States. She completed her studies with a Master's degree in Earth Sciences from the University of Yaoundé (now the University of Yaoundé I). Subsequently, having received a scholarship from CIDA (Canada), she obtained a DESS (postgraduate diploma) in Petroleum Business Administration from the École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Montréal in 1988.
Career
Returning to Cameroon in 1983, she was appointed Head of the Hydrocarbon Exploration Department at the Ministry of Mines, Water and Energy (MINMEE) a few years later. From 1991 to 2009, Pauline Irène Nguene held successive positions in the Prime Minister's Office:
- Attaché (1991-1992);
- Project Manager (1992-2001);
- Technical Advisor (2001-2009).
- On January 13, 2009, she was appointed President of the Council for Supporting the Implementation of Partnership Contracts (CARPA), the organization responsible for implementing public-private partnerships (PPPs) in Cameroon.
- On October 2, 2015, she was appointed Minister of Social Affairs.
Since 2016, she has also served as President of the Board of Directors of the Cardinal Paul Émile Léger National Center for the Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities (CNRPH-CPEL).
Some major projects of the Ministry of Social Affairs under his leadership:
Rehabilitation and modernization of the Cameroonian Children's Institution (ICE) in Betamba, Ntui (Central Region);
Construction of the Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities (CRPH) in Maroua (Far North Region);
Fighting social exclusion and implementing social entrepreneurship;
Establishment of a unified social registry (mapping of socially vulnerable people);
Modernization of the National Center for the Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities - Cardinal Paul Émile Léger (CNRPH-CPEL).