Minister Profile

Justin Kalumba Mwana Ngongo is a politician from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and a lawyer by profession. Before and after his election, he worked successively as a lawyer in the firm of Bar Association President Bernard Claude Mbu-ne-Letang, and then as legal advisor to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Livestock in 2001. The following year, he held the same position in the office of the Minister of Economy, before becoming Chief of Staff to the Minister of Industry in 2003, and subsequently to the Minister of Finance later that same year.

In 2006, he was elected as a National Deputy for the Kasongo constituency in Maniema Province. In 2011, he was appointed Minister of Foreign Trade. The following January, he was re-elected as a National Deputy for the Kasongo constituency. In April 2012, he was appointed Minister of Transport and Communications. Politically, Justin Kalumba Mwana Ngongo resigned as Secretary General of the PANU and as a member of the party in 2011, having previously served as patron of the "Compagnons d'André Philippe Futa" (Companions of André Philippe Futa), a group led by Samy Tshisekedi.