Ms Odette
ASSEMBE
ENGOULOU

CMR
Entry in the IOC

2019

Born

25 September 1970

Education

Bachelor’s in Private Law; Masters in Local Communities Management; Post-Graduate Diploma in Trading Policies and Negotiations; Post-Graduate Diploma in Business Law; Advanced Course Diploma in Sport Organisations Management (Olympic Solidarity)

Career

Airports Authority of Cameroon (ADC); Currently self-employed in various personal businesses in the fields of catering, public works and other services

Sports practiced

Basketball; Badminton; Handball

Sports administration

President, Cameroon National Badminton Federation (2012-); Vice-President, Cameroon National Olympic and Sports Committee (2013-); Council Member, Badminton Confederation of Africa (2015-); President, Women's Committee of the Badminton Association for French-speaking countries (2017-); Vice-President, Badminton Confederation of Africa in charge of Zone 3 (2017-); President, Legal and Ethics Committee, Badminton Confederation of Africa (2017-); Member, Executive Bureau, Badminton Confederation of Africa (2018-); Member, Women's Commission of the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (2018-)

Membership of other associations

Treasurer, "Coeur d'Afrique Foundation", Chaired by the Roving Ambassador at the Presidency of the Republic of Cameroon, HE Albert Roger MILLER (2005-); Proprietor of an Orphanage in the outskirts of Yaoundé, Cameroon

IOC History

Member of following Commissions: Public Affairs and Social Development through Sport Commission (2020-2021); Olympic Programme (2022-); Culture and Olympic Heritage (2023-); Participation in the 2018 Olympic in Action Forum in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Participation in the Youth Olympic Games Buenos Aires 2018; Participation in the Women in Sport Forum in Botswana and Rwanda