Adrienne Zamdjio

Mayor of Fokoué, Cameroon

Adrienne Paule ZAMDJIO Epse DEMENOU TAPAMO was born on June 12, 1960 in Douala. After a brilliant academic career culminating in a Baccalaureat GII (option compatablility) and a Master's degree in Social Sciences from the Catholic University of Central Africa, Mrs DEMENOU passed the entrance exam to the prestigious National School of Administration and the Judiciary, from which she graduated in turn as Principal Controller of Major Taxes in her promotion (in 1990) and as Vice-Major Tax Inspector in her promotion in 2004. Her professional career has taken her from one to the other as Research Officer in the Tax Legislation Unit, then as Head of Department of the Divisional Taxation Centre in Yaoundé 12, Yaoundé 3; in 2013, she was appointed Coordinator of the Special Tax Registration Unit, in charge of real estate transfers, inheritance, analysis and registration of taxes and other contracts. She will remain there until June 2016, when she will retire after a fully administrative career.