The Congolese Diplomatic Academy () is an institute for training diplomats of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Kinshasa. It was established in to improve the quality of the DRC's diplomatic corps, graduating 200 civil servants by 2009.Une académie diplomatique pour en finir avec le « diplomate improvisé » . Jeune Afrique. Published 24 July 2009. Retrieved 13 December 2017. The school cooperates with other institutions from abroad, including ones from France, South Africa,Training on Results Based Management at the Congolese Diplomatic Academy. United Nations Institute for Training and Research. Published November 2010. Retrieved 13 December 2017. Russia,Strategic Analysis: Russian Business Activity in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Abstract). RWR Advisory Group. Published 17 May 2017. Retrieved 13 December 2017. and the Netherlands.Capacity Building for Diplomatic Academies. Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
The director of the academy, as of 2010, was Bonaventure Mpasi Makenga. In 2019 the director was Pierre André Ngekene Bus-Mbul, and as of 2022 the director was Djuma Kauzeni Rashidi.
Among the staff was Galina M. Sidorova, a Russian diplomat who taught Russian language at the DRC Diplomatic Academy, currently working at the Institute of African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.Galina M. SIDOROVA. Russian Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
See also Education in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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