Jeanine Mabunda Lioko Mudiayi (born 10 April 1964) is a Congolese lawyer and politician who in 2019 became the first woman elected to lead the Democratic Republic of the Congo's National Assembly.
She graduated from the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium with a degree in law[1][2] and from the ICHEC Brussels Management School in economics.
[3] Mabunda was an executive of the Central Bank of Congo[4] and was Director General of the Industry Promotion Fund for five years.
Mabunda was elected to the National Assembly in 2011 and re-elected in 2018 to represent Bumba in Mongala province.
[citation needed] She has served as Minister of Industry and as an adviser to President Joseph Kabila in the fight against sexual violence and the recruitment of child soldiers.