Joseph Ngute

About

Joseph Dion Ngute (born 12 March 1954) is a Cameroonian jurist and politician, serving as the 9th prime minister of Cameroon, following his appointment in January 2019. He succeeded Philémon Yang, who held the post since 2009.

== Career ==
Ngute was born in southwest Cameroon, in Bongong Barombi. From 1966 to 1971, he studied at the Government Bilingual High School of Buea, where he obtained a GCE A-Level (General Certificate of Education Advanced Level). From 1973 to 1977, he attended graduate school at the University of Yaoundé and obtained a law degree. Then, from 1977 to 1978, he enrolled at Queen Mary University of London, where he obtained a master’s degree in law, and from 1978 to 1982 he followed the Ph.D. program in law at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom.
Since 1980, he has been a professor at the University of Yaoundé II. In 1991, he served as the director of the Advanced School of Administration and Magistracy. He entered government in December 1997 as the Minister Delegate to the Minister of External Relations, a position he held until March 2018, when he was appointed Minister of Special Duties at the Presidency of the Republic.

== Prime Ministership… ==