Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner (born 1983) is a political scientist and politician who was appointed as Foreign Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on 13 June 2024.

Her mother is Congolese and her father is a former German Catholic priest, Johannes Wilhelm Wagner, from Bad Münstereifel in North Rhine-Westphalia.

[2] Her older sister, Katharina Mbuyi Wagner, born in 1978 in Kinshasa, is the senior foreign affairs political advisor to president Félix Tshisekedi.

[2] In 2014, she joined the United Nations, working in peacekeeping missions, including MONUSCO (DR Congo) and MINUSCA (Central African Republic).

In 2019, she relocated to Nairobi (Kenya), working there as the assistant to Xia Huang, the United Nations special envoy for the African Great Lakes Region.