Hélène Aholou Keke

Hélène Aholou Keke is a lawyer and politician in Benin.

Biography She specialised in family law and was called to the bar for the first time in Paris, France. She was the first woman to serve as the President of the Benin Bar Association. She was called to the bar of Cotonou in 2008. For more than 20 years she worked as a lawyer for the Beninese government.

Keke has served as a member of the National Assembly of Benin in its fifth (2007–2011) and sixth (2011–2015) legislatures. She was president of the Assembly's Commission of Laws and Human Rights in December 2012 when the death penalty was abolished. Keke resigned from the governing Cowry Forces for an Emerging Benin party in 2015. In May 2016 she was appointed as one of 30 members of the National Commission for Political and Institutional Reform by new, independent President Patrice Talon.

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