economist and in 1998 was appointed as the Resident Representative of the IMF in Cameroon, where he supervised the implementation of a program of economic reform initiated in 1996. In 1994, he created the annual Prize Professor Matungulu to reward the best first-degree economics student from UNIKIN. Ministerial service In April 2001, he was appointed Minister of Economy, Finance and Budget of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). In February 2003, Freddy Matungulu resigned as Minister of Finance, lacking broad-based government support for his efforts to root out corruption. Back to the IMF In July 2003, he returned to the International Monetary Fund, where he performed the functions of Country Team Leader / Head of Mission for the design and monitoring of economic programs of various countries with financial and technical assistance agreements with the IMF. As Head of Mission, Freddy Matungulu conducted, from 2003 to 2014, about thirty IMF visits to various IMF member countries. Politics In December 2014, Freddy Matungulu took an early retirement from the IMF, to regain his freedom of speech. He aims to contribute to the efforts to improve the economic and social situation of his home country, the Democratic Republic of Congo. During the same month, he published an article in the magazine Jeune Afrique entitled “ DRC : a society sick of its politicians and its elite ” to denounce the evils that plague the RDC. In May 2015, Freddy Matungulu created a political party: "Congo Na Biso" ("Our Congo", CNB in acronym). The party headquarters is located in Kinshasa. On August 8, 2018, Freddy Matungulu registered with the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) as a candidate for the December 2018 presidential election in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. As part of the efforts to establish a single opposition candidacy, Freddy Matungulu took part in the Conclave of the Opposition which led to the creation in Geneva (Switzerland), on November 11, 2018, of the opposition LAMUKA COALITION of which he is a co-founder. The work of the Conclave benefited from the facilitation/technical support of the Kofi Annan Foundation. The other participants, co-founders of the LAMUKA Coalition, are Jean-Pierre Bemba, Martin Fayulu, Vital Kamerhe, Katumbi Chapwe, Adolphe Muzito and Félix Tshisekedi. On August 1, 2019, Freddy Matungulu was elected to the Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire. He is the Board member representing the six