samuel dossou

Samuel Dossou-Aworet (born in Porto-Novo - Benin on November 5, 1944) is a Pan-African businessman officer of the Legion of Honour and Grand Officer of the Equatorial Star. He is a petroleum engineer of the Ecole Centrale de Marseille in Petrochemistry and Industrial Organic Synthesis (IPSOI 1971) and an Engineer of the French Institute of Petroleum (ENSPM 1972).

From 1973 to 1974, he was a consulting engineer for the Economic Corporation of Applied Mathematics (Sema Metra International) in Paris.
From 1976 to 1980, he also took on a position as Governor of OPEC Special Fund. In 1978, he became Gabon's Director General of Hydrocarbons, a position which he held until 1991. While he was Director General of Hydrocarbons, Samuel Dossou-Aworet also held the position of Gabon's National Representative to the African Petroleum Producers Association (APPA), from 1988 to 1992.

Samuel Dossou-Aworet has contributed to the wellbeing of the African population, long before the creation of his Pan-African NGO, Fondation Espace Afrique (FEA), recognized as public utility by Geneva in 1996 and by Benin 2004. FEA has worked with international NGO such as Mercy Ships, Médecins du Monde Suisse[14], to name a few. Humanitarian actions of Samuel Dossou-Aworet include
* The creation of a free and well-equipped boarding-school complex in a rural area of Gabon and
* the construction of the International Centre for the Experimentation and Valorization of African Resources (CIEVRA) located in Benin.