Alain Brice Boumpoutou, new president of the Ucac-Icam Institute

International
14 Jan 2025

In December 2024, Alain Brice Boumpoutou succeeded Jean-Luc Soufflet, who dedicated many years to serving the Ucac-Icam Institute in Central Africa. Having served as Vice President of the Board of Directors for the past two years and as a permanent board member since 2018, Alain Brice Boumpoutou is well-acquainted with the Ucac-Icam Institute. He now aims to continue the momentum established by his predecessor, Jean-Luc Soufflet, whose tenure will be remembered as a period of transformation and consolidation.

Alain Brice Boumpoutou has extensive experience in the industrial sector and a deep commitment to education and knowledge-sharing. “I still remember, back in the early 1990s, teaching mathematics to future priests at the Catholic seminary of Loango, in the Pointe-Noire region of Congo, while also working. I volunteered there for two years, and a few years later, I made the same choice at Ucac-Icam,” he recalls. This was his way of gaining deeper insight into Icam, the engineering school he had hoped to join after completing high school.

 

« The human dimension of Icam resonates with me deeply »

He eventually joined the Ucac-Icam Institute, first becoming part of the administrative team in 2010-2011 and again in 2015-2018, before being appointed as a permanent board member in 2018, the year of his retirement. “The human dimension of Icam, which is not found in other engineering schools, resonates with me deeply,” he explains. In 2022, he was named Vice-President of the Board of Directors, and he now succeeds Jean-Luc Soufflet as President.

“It is both a significant challenge and an honor, and I will do my utmost to be worthy of it. I would like to thank those who placed their trust in me by granting me these responsibilities. My goal is to continue along the same path set by Jean-Luc, consolidating what has been accomplished. With 1,100 students, we can truly say that we have reached maturity ! We will also continue to explore new opportunities for the Institute. For example, we are closely examining the model of production schools in France, which provide professional training and a second chance for disadvantaged and at-risk youth. The ongoing initiative in Pointe-Noire, launched a year ago, will continue, and we know that similar needs exist in Douala, Cameroon. There is still so much more we can do here for our youth.”