User:IBS91/Edem Tengue

Kokou Edem Tengue was born on September 24, 1980 in Lomé, Togo. He is Togolese politician, business leader, economist and Chartered accountant.

Since October 1, 2020, he has been Minister of Maritime Economy, Fishing ans Costal Protection of Togo in Victoire Tomegah Dogbé government.

He is the second sun of TENGUE Kokou Frederic, former head of the Togo Banking Training Center from 1986 to 2004 and Danhoui Amegnihoue civil servant at the Togolese Ministry of National Education.

Graduated of Sciences Po Paris at the University of Leicester and the University of Birmingham, he joined the Maersk group's training program in Copenhagen from 2003 to 2005.

From 2005 to 2007, he was assigned to be the assistant oh the financial director of the regional office of the Maersk group, which covers all the Scandinavia and the Baltic States, he was the etablishedin Gothenburg, Sweden.

He return to Togo to become the financial director oh the three companies of the group that are Maersk Togo S.A and Lomé Terminal service created by the Maersk group in order to tender for the privatization of handling activities at the port of Lomé. He was appointed commercial director, and the general manager oh the Togolese subsidiary company oh the Danish conglomerate Maersk.

He was elected by his peers, president oh the association of shipping compagnies in Togo.

He was elected in the electoral district of Haho to the Togolese National Assembly, with the UNIR party during the legislative elections of December 20, 2018. However, he renounced to sit at the National Assembly after three months to devote himself to his professional activities.

On October 1, 2020, he was called to the government as Minister of Maritime Economy.