12 Facts About Faustin Touadera

Faustin-Archange Touadera is a Central African politician and academic who has been President of the Central African Republic since March 2016.

Faustin Touadera previously was Prime Minister of the Central African Republic from January 2008 to January 2013.

Faustin Touadera was re-elected for a second term on 27 December 2020.

Faustin Touadera received his secondary education at the Barthelemy Boganda College in Bangui and obtained a baccalaureate in 1976, before attending the University of Bangui and the University of Abidjan.

Faustin Touadera earned a mathematics doctorate in 1986, supervised by Daniel Gourdin at the Lille University of Science and Technology in France and another doctorate, in mathematics, which was supervised by Marcel Dossa at the University of Yaounde I in Cameroon in 2004.

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Faustin Touadera joined the Inter-State Committee for the Standardisation of Mathematics Programs in the French-speaking countries and the Indian Ocean in 1999, serving as the president of the Committee from 2001 to 2003.

Faustin Touadera became vice chancellor of the University of Bangui in May 2004.

Faustin Touadera subsequently served as rector of the university from 2005 to 2008, during which time he launched several key initiatives, such as the entrepreneurship training program and the creation of the Euclid Consortium.

Faustin Touadera was appointed as Prime Minister by President Francois Bozize on 22 January 2008, following the resignation of Elie Dote.

Later, Faustin Touadera announced his intention to stand as an independent candidate in the October 2015 presidential election.

Faustin Touadera appointed Simplice Sarandji as Prime Minister on 2 April 2016.

Faustin Touadera was a deacon in a Baptist church of the Fraternal Union of Baptist Churches.