Gabriel Bokilo (20 July 1938 – 26 March 2010[1]) was a Congolese politician and the President of the Union for National Redress (URN).
He became Prefect of Nkéni in 1963 and then Secretary-General of the Brazzaville city government in 1964; later, he became Director of the Cabinet of the Minister of Justice, Labour, and the Civil Service in 1967.
He then briefly headed the Congolese branch of Société Générale[2] and was subsequently the National Director of the Bank of Central African States (BEAC) in Congo-Brazzaville from 1973 to 1993;[2][3] he was also Alternate Governor at the World Bank from 1973 to 1974 and Alternate Governor at the International Monetary Fund from 1975 to 1993.
[3] He was also the URN candidate for the August 1992 presidential election, but he attracted little support, receiving 0.29% of the vote and placing 13th.
At the new party's constitutive congress, which began on 19 April 2007,[8] Bokilo was not chosen as President of the FDN;[9] he then announced that he was withdrawing the URN from the FDN[8][9] on 20 April, saying that "fundamental differences have emerged" and he had "decided on behalf of the party to denounce the agreement".