Kasongo Munganga

Constantin Kasongo Munganga is a politician and monetarist from the Democratic Republic of Congo. He holds a Ph.D. in economics. In 2011, he was elected MP for the constituency of Katanda Territory, in the Kasai-Oriental province. He is the former Chief Executive Officer of the Center for Expertise, Evaluation, and Certification of Precious and Semi-Precious Mineral Substances, CEEC in short. But all didn't that he's also Kasongo's big brother who sponsored relocation from the province of East Kasai to the capital Kinshasa, on 1962. Once arrived in Kinshasa, Kasongo registered to College Albert 1st (actually Boboto College), where he graduated from high school, majoring in Poetry and Rhetoric of literature. Afterward, he earned an Economics degree at Lovanium University, now the University of Kinshasa.

Education Early education and High school Higher education

Early education and High school

Kasai-Oriental Province Elementary school: in Katanda Middle school: in Lusambo High School: College Saint George in Ngadanjika

Kinshasa He moved to Kinshasa in 1962 for school reasons. High School: Boboto College

Higher education Undergraduate Bachelor of Economics from Lovanium University (1970)

Graduate Master in Development Economics from the African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (IDEP) Dakar, Senegal (1979-1982) Master in Monetary Economic at The Catholic University of Louvain in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (1982–83) Diploma of Advanced Economic Studies in Monetary, Financial and International Economics at the University of Kinshasa. Ph.D. in economics at the University of Kinshasa, after defending publicly his doctoral thesis on "mutations of economic structures for a self-centered and auto-dynamic development of the country".

Publication Tentatives de Stabilisation Économique au Zaïre, is available on JSTOR La problématique des programmes d’ajustement structural durable en Afrique : contraintes d’appropriation et leçons de l’expérience congolaise de 1975 à 2012», Doctoral thesis on "mutations of economic structures for a self-centered and auto-dynamic development of the country". (2012 to Dec 2018). National deputy in the Congolese National Assembly for the constituency of Katanda Territory, in the province of Kasai-Oriental (2011 to Dec 2018). CEO of the Center for Expertise, Evaluation, and Certification of Precious and Semi-Precious Mineral Substances, CEEC in short, He installed the first broadcast Station in Katanda in 2013. The construction of Health Care Center Katanda in 2012.

Professional in Kinshasa At the time he was the CEO of the CEEC, Also, to prevent fraud of precious and semi-precious minerals, Kasongo's management implemented internal training of Congolese evaluators after having installed scanners at Congolese international airports, according to the Kimberley Process. The result in production and traceability was successful. (2006 to 2008).' During its financial recovery, SOFIDE should be liquidated because of its bankruptcy. In its capacity as the major shareholder, the Central Bank of the Congo appointed Kasongo as the new CEO to give a strong signal for its rescue. Kasongo's management succeeded so to spare SOFIDE from its liquidation (1998-2000).