Matata Ponyo Mapon (born 5 June 1964)[1] is a Congolese political figure who was Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 18 April 2012 to 17 November 2016.

[8][9] In 2016, he started writing his doctoral thesis entitled “la qualité de l'ajustement budgétaire et croissance économique en RDC” (The quality of budgetary adjustment and economic growth in the DRC).

A Katanga Express Gulfstream IV business jet carrying several Congolese government officials overran the runway and crashed on landing at Kavumu Airport; two passengers and both crew members were killed.

Matata Ponyo Mapon consolidates the banking system of public payroll and initiates reforms aimed at diversifying the economy, particularly in the agricultural sector.

[26][27] In October 2020, Moussa Faki, President of the African Union Commission, appointed him as head of the Presidential Election Observation Mission (MOEUA) in Guinea.

[28] Matata Ponyo is accused in 2020 by the General Inspectorate of Finance of embezzlement of public funds (up to $205 million) and criminal association during his tenure as Prime Minister.

[33] In 2011, while he was Minister of Finance, Matata Ponyo was responsible for compensating the victims of the Zairianization policy decreed by Mobutu Sese Seko in the 1970s.

In July 2021, the prosecutor at the Constitutional Court obtained the lifting of the parliamentary immunity of Matata Ponyo to be able to question him in this case where he is suspected of embezzlement (to the tune of several million dollars).