Lidi Bessi Kama | |
|---|---|
| Minister of Sports and Leisure | |
| Assumed office 1 October 2020 | |
| President | Faure Gnassingbé |
| Prime Minister | Victoire Tomegah Dogbé |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 15 March 1979 Lomé,Togo |
| Alma mater | University of Lomé |
| Awards | Knight of the Order of Mono (2011) |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | Togo |
| Branch/service | Togolese Armed Forces |
| Rank | Physician-commander |
Lidi Kedjaka Bessi Kama-Gumedzoe (born 15 March 1979) is a Togolese handball administrator and physician who has served as Minister of Sports and Leisure since 2020. She has also served as a military physician and as a member of several sports governing body medical commissions,chairing those of the Togolese Handball Federation and International Handball Federation.
Lidi Kedjaka Bessi Kama-Gumedzoe was born on 15 March 1979 in Lomé. [1] She was educated at the Notre Dame des Apôtres College in Lomé,at Lycée de Tokoin (obtaining her baccalaureate in 1996),and at the LoméArmy Health Service School. [2] She then graduated with a doctorate in medicine at the University of Lomé,where she got a specialist degree in pediatrics and child hygiene,before getting a specialist degree in sports medicine at the UniversitéFélix Houphouët-Boigny. [2]
After joining the Togolese National Olympic Committee Medical Commission in 2005,she was part of the 2008 Summer Olympics as Togo's closing ceremony flagbearer and an Olympic physician. [3] [1] After serving as Togo's representative in the Zone II and Zone III Regional Anti-Doping Organization in 2006,she served as president from 2015 to 2017. [1] She has also chaired the Medical Commissions of the Togolese Handball Federation (in 2008) and International Handball Federation. [1] [4] She also joined the African Handball Confederation Medical Commission in 2009. [1]
She is a doctor-commander in the Togolese Armed Forces,and is the country's first female paratrooper doctor. [4] [1] She has worked as a pediatrician at the Sylvanus Olympio University Hospital and as a teacher at the École nationale des auxiliaires médicaux . [1] She was also Deputy Force Medical Officer of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali from 2017 until 2018. [1] She was a commissioner of the National Human Rights Commission of Togo from April 2019 to 2021. [1]
On 1 October 2020,she became Minister of Sports and Leisure of Togo as part of Victoire Tomegah Dogbé's cabinet;she is the second woman to be Togo's sports minister,the first one being Angèle Bansah . [4] [2] She had assumed the position amidst the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic in Togo. [4]
She was made Knight of the Order of Mono in 2011. [1]