Luc Adamo Matéta

Luc Daniel Adamo Matéta (born October 30, 1949) is a Congolese politician and the President of the Union for the Reconstruction and Development of the Congo (URDC), he was the first Director General of Industries in the Congo in 1982.

Matéta is an influential and discreet politician, he is a member of President Dénis Sassou N'Guesso cabinet since 2002, as minister delegate to the presidency at the rank of High Commissioner. Matéta is also the general coordinator of the center parties in the Republic of Congo since July 2020.

He was Minister of the Budget and the Coordination of Financial Administration in the government of President Pascal Lissouba in Congo-Brazzaville from 1995 to 1997. Matéta was a candidate in the 2002 presidential election and deputy in the MCDDI political party of former Prime Minister Bernard Kolélas in 1992.

He has been a mediator several times between the government of Brazzaville and the opposition, he benefits from an image as a man of integrity in the Congolese political landscape. Mateta is multilingual, he speaks French, Russian, English, Lingala and Kintumba.

In 2007, he succeeded the first lady Antoinette Sassou Nguesso as president of the CCN National Coordination Committee of projects financed by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

The CCN succeeded, under the mandate of the First Lady in 2006, in providing the Congo with 45 million US dollars for the HIV/AIDS component. In 2020, Bacongo town hall renamed the avenue in front of the Saint-Exupéry French high school in Brazzaville in his name.