Partner(s) Philo Ebata Website www.lucienebata.com | Name Lucien Ebata | |
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Born March 12, 1969 (age 55) ( 1969-03-12 ) Alma mater University of HavanaUniversity of OttawaUniversity of Montreal Home town Ollombo, Republic of the Congo | ||
Lucien Ebata (born 12 March 1969, Ollombo, Republic of the Congo) is a Congolese-Canadian businessman and publisher. He is the founder and CEO of Orion Oil, and publisher of Forbes Afrique.
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Biography
Ebata was born in Ollombo, Republic of the Congo, on 12 March 1969. He emigrated to Cuba where he attained a law degree from the University of Havana in 1994. He then emigrated to Canada and completed master's degree studies in Commercial Law at the University of Ottawa in 1996, and received an LLM degree in Business Law from the University of Montreal in 2004.
Career
Ebata was variously employed at the Canadian Ministry of Natural Resources, Ministry of Human Resources, Commission for Public Service and Ministry of Environment.
Ebata left government service to form a private firm specializing in insurance and taxation, representing clients in the Tax Court of Canada. Between 2001 and 2004, he shifted his attention to lobbying on behalf of businesses and foreign governments.
Several years later, he founded the Orion Group SA and focused its activities on the trading of petroleum products, i.e. the purchase / resale of crude and refined petroleum products, mainly on the African continent. He later expanded the scope of the activities of his group to the leasing of aircraft and chauffeur driven cars in Africa and Europe.
Ebata launched Forbes Afrique on 24 July 2012, the Francophone African version of Forbes magazine, specializing in economic fortunes and ranking information.