Gilbert Noël Ouédraogo

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Gilbert Noël Ouédraogo (born December 25, 1968) is a Burkinabé politician and lawyer from Ouagadougou. His father is Gérard Kango Ouédraogo.

He led the Alliance for Democracy and Federation–African Democratic Rally (ADF-RDA) from 2003 until the party dissolved in 2026. Earlier in his career, he held party roles such as Secretary of Youth (1994) and Secretary of External Relations (1998).

Ouédraogo served as Minister of Social Action and National Solidarity from November 12, 2000, to June 10, 2002. In the May 2002 parliamentary elections, he was elected to the National Assembly from Nord Region, and he became Third Vice-President of the National Assembly. He was re-elected as Third Vice-President in 2003 and 2004. In June 2003, he was elected President of the ADF-RDA and became the party’s leader in the opposition.

In March 2004, he joined Burkina Faso’s Pan-African Parliament, where he served as General Rapporteur of the Judicial Affairs Commission. In October 2004, he was elected Vice-President of the West African Regional Group in the Pan-African Parliament.

Though the ADF-RDA was the largest opposition party, it supported President Blaise Compaoré in the November 2005 election. Afterward, Ouédraogo was appointed Minister of Transport on January 6, 2006. He was re-elected to the National Assembly in the May 2007 elections and remained in the government. He was re-elected again in December 2012.

After the 2012 election, the ADF-RDA was not part of the new government formed in January 2013, but Ouédraogo was elected Fourth Vice-President of the National Assembly, a position he held from 2013 to 2014.

In 2014, Ouédraogo and the ADF-RDA supported a proposed constitutional amendment to lift term limits for the president, a move that led to violent protests and the resignation of President Compaoré on October 31, 2014.

In August 2015, Ouédraogo was named the ADF-RDA's candidate for the presidential election, but the Constitutional Council barred him from running, along with another party leader, for supporting the removal of term limits. He was also barred from standing as a parliamentary candidate.