TOGO

Mr. Frédéric Edem HEGBE was born on April 27, 1951 in Togo. He was a career diplomat and was appointed by Presidential Decree as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Togo to the United States of America in January 19, 2017. He presented his letters of credence to the President of the United State of America, Donald J. TRUMP on April 24, 2017. At the height of his career as Minister Plenipotentiary of Foreign  Affairs of exceptional class within the Togolese Ministry of Foreign  Affairs, Cooperation and African Integration, he served as Chargé  d’Affaires ad interim (1992-1994) and Minister-Counselor/ Deputy Chief  of Mission (1994-1999) at the Embassy of the Republic of Togo in  Washington, D.C.  Before, he held a position of First Secretary/DCM at  the Embassy of the Republic of Togo in the Democratic Republic of Congo  (formerly Zaire).   

Over the course of his career, Mr. HEGBE attended many meetings and conferences in Togo and abroad.

In 1992, he was member of Togolese delegation to the 47th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York  (Commission of Finances and Budget). From 1985 until 1987, he was the  Representative of the Government of Togo at the Pan African Telecom  Union Board of Governors meetings in Kinshasa-Zaire (current DRC).

In March 1983, he took part to the Non-Aligned Countries 7th Summit in New Delhi, India and to the Ministerial Meeting of the  Coordinating Bureau of the Non-Aligned Movement in Colombo, Sri Lanka in  June 1979.

He went on  missions in Nairobi (Kenya), Victoria (Seychelles Island) and Lusaka  (Zambia) to assess the performance of the OAU (current African Union) Ad  Hoc Committee set up to support the Frontline countries and the  refugees from Zimbabwe (former Republic of Rhodesia).

He also  attended meetings and conferences of the Economic Community of West  African States (ECOWAS), African Development Bank (ADB) and African  Development Fund (ADF) as well as of the United Nations Environment  Program (UNEP).

Mr. HEGBE  graduated in International Relations at the International Relations  Institute of Cameroon (I.R.I.C) – University of Yaoundé, (Cameroon) in  1980. He also hold a Master’s degree (C1) in Comparative and African  Literature and a Bachelor’s Degree in Modern Arts, Majoring in Classic  and Contemporary French Literature, from the University of Benin (now  University of Lomé, Togo). He trained U.S. diplomats in languages and  culture for their deployment overseas at the Foreign Service Institute  (FSI) within the National Foreign Affairs Training Center of the  Department of State – (NFATC) in Washington, D.C from 2000 to 2016.

Ambassador  HEGBE has notably distinguished himself in humanitarian areas by  supplying water and installing solar panels that generate electricity in  rural zones of his country with the assistance of Non-Governmental  Organizations (NGOs). He also personally financed public latrines in  some villages.

Ambassador HEGBE is bilingual. He is fluent in French and English.

As hobbies, Mr. HEGBE likes reading, jogging and table tennis.

He has three (3) children.