Kimbembe Mazunga

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Kimbembe Mazunga is born in Kinshasa on Dec 11th 1956; he is Civil Engineer in Mechanis and has been working at "Office des routes" since 1986; he has been the governor of the city-province of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, since November 15, 2005. Originally from the province of Bas-Congo (now Kongo Central as of the 2005 Constitution), he is a member of the People's Party for Reconstruction and Development (PPRD), the party of the DRC's current president, Joseph Kabila.

He previously served as principal counselor to the Chief of State in charge of Infrastructures, as well as Minister of Public Works, Regional Planning, Urbanism and Habitat during the Transitional Government under Laurent Kabila. In 2005, he was selected by Kabila's son to replace Jean Kimbunda Mudikela as governor of Kinshasa; Mazunga, in turn, selected Pascal Tabu Ley as Vice-Governor in charge of political, administrative, and socio-cultural questions.