Judge Dieudonné Kaluba was elected president of the Constitutional Court of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on April 20, 2021 in Kinshasa by his peers. He succeeds Benoît Lwamba Bindu who had resigned from his post for health reasons.
The new president was appointed in 2020 by President Félix Tshisekedi as a judge of the Constitutional Court. He was elected head of the institution after a ballot pitting him against three other candidates, namely interim Funga Evariste, Jean-Pierre Mavungu and Corneille Wasenda.
Born in Mbuji-Mayi (a city in the center of the DRC) in February 1966, Dieudonné Kaluba has a doctorate in public law with the highest distinction since August 31, 2010, at the University of Kinshasa. He is a professor at the University’s Faculty of Law, also serves as a lawyer at the Kinshasa / Gombe Court of Appeal and acts as counsel before the International Criminal Court.
It should be noted that Dieudonné Kaluba was the lawyer for the Congolese government during the highlighting of the embezzlement case of more than 50 million USD involving Vital Kamerhe, former chief of staff of the President of the Republic, this within the framework of the trial said of the emergency program for the first 100 days of Félix Tshisekedi’s mandate.
