Jean-Baptiste Baskouda

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Jean-Baptiste Baskouda (born 24 August 1957) is a Cameroonian politician who has served in the Senate of Cameroon since 2013. Earlier, he was Secretary of State for Territorial Administration from 1985 to 1988 and then Deputy Director of the Civil Cabinet of the Presidency. He later became Secretary-General of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security on 26 January 2005. In May 2013, President Paul Biya appointed him to the newly created Senate. Baskouda was one of 30 senators appointed by the president; the other 70 were elected indirectly. Biya appointed three senators for each region, and Baskouda represented the Far North Region. When the Senate Bureau was elected on 12 June 2013, he became Quaestor.