Jean-Marie Adzé (born January 1956"ADZÉ Jean-Marie", ''GABON: LES HOMMES DE POUVOIR N°4'', 5 March 2002 .) is a

Gabon Gabon (; ; snq, Ngabu), officially the Gabonese Republic (french: République gabonaise), is a country on the west coast of Central Africa. Located on the equator, it is bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north ...

ese politician and former diplomat. He was Gabon's Ambassador to

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from 2002 to 2008 and has been Mayor of

Akiéni Akiéni is a small town in Lekoni-Lekori Department in Haut-Ogooue in north-eastern Gabon Gabon (; ; snq, Ngabu), officially the Gabonese Republic (french: République gabonaise), is a country on the west coast of Central Africa. Locate ...

since 2008. Adzé was born in Akiéni. He was adviser to the Director-General of the National Bank of Rural Credit from 1989 to 1991 before being appointed as Deputy Director of the Presidential Cabinet, in charge of Administrative and Political Affairs, in 1991. He was also a leader of the Association of Democrat Renovators, along with Emmanuel Ondo Methogo, in the early 1990s. Adzé retained his post as Deputy Director of the Presidential Cabinet for a decade, although his responsibilities were reduced to only administrative affairs in 1998. On 8 January 2002, he was appointed as Gabon's Ambassador to

, replacing

Honorine Dossou Naki Honorine Dossou Naki (born 14 March 1946David E. Gardinier and Douglas A. Yates, ''Historical Dictionary of Gabon'' (third edition, 2006), pages 88–89."Dossou Naki Honorine", ''Gabon: Les Hommes de Pouvoir'' N°4Africa Intelligence 5 March 2 ...

;"Jeune Afrique L'intelligent, Issues 2137-2145"
(2002) . he presented his credentials as Ambassador to France on 20 February 2002. While posted in

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...

, he was also accredited as Ambassador to

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and

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

. Following the April 2008 local elections, he was elected as Mayor of Akiéni and Félicité Ongouori Ngoubili was appointed to succeed him as Ambassador to France on 6 June 2008."Gabon : Nomination d’un nouvel ambassadeur en France"
, Infosplusgabon, 11 June 2008 .

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Adze, Jean-Marie 1956 births Living people Mayors of places in Gabon Ambassadors of Gabon to France Ambassadors of Gabon to Portugal Ambassadors of Gabon to Switzerland 21st-century Gabonese people