François Naoueyama

François Naoueyama (born 31 January 1957) is a Central African basketball player and politician. He competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics with the Central African Republic national basketball team. He scored 47 points in the team's 7 games.

Career Basketball Naoueyama played for ASOPT. He represented the Central African Republic in the FIBA Africa Championship 1987, where his country won the tournament. He also part of CAR squad in the 1988. In his retirement, he was appointed as the treasurer of Central African Basketball Federation on 27 February 2021. Touadera then reappointed Naoueyama on his cabinet as Minister of Environment and Ecology on 22 April 2011. Under his tenure, he signed a voluntary partnership agreement with the European Union to conserve the ecosystem on 28 November 2011 and proposed an integrated approach in the national REDD implementation. Furthermore, CAR received Equipment for Identifying Prohibited Substances from France in 2012. Apart from that, he became the speaker at IRENA event in Riocentro in 2012.