Jean-Félix Mamalepot

Jean-Félix Mamalepot (December 28, 1940 – December 12, 2012) was a Gabonese banker who was Governor of the Bank of Central African States (BEAC) from 1990 to 2007.

Life and career Mamalepot was born at Mbabiri in the Haut-Ogooué Province of Gabon; he was a member of the Kota ethnic group. He was educated in France and joined the Bank of the States of Equatorial Africa and Cameroon in 1968. In 1970, he joined the Gabonese Development Bank as Deputy Director-General and then as Director-General, remaining in that post until 1990. He briefly served as Finance Adviser to Prime Minister Casimir Oyé-Mba in 1990. he took over that post in October 1990.

Subsequently, Mamalepot was elected for a three-year term as President of the Council of Administration of the National Health Insurance and Social Security Fund (Caisse nationale d'assurance maladie et de garantie sociale) on 26 November 2008. He was hospitalized in Paris at the Hôpital Cochin in November 2012, and he died at his home in Libreville on 12 December 2012.