Tidjane Thiam

An alternative challenge to Gon could come from another fresh face with heft the recently resigned Crédit Suisse chief Tidjane Thiam who is rumoured to be contemplating a presidential run...

APP’s board is headed by former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan and includes the International Monetary Fund ex-Managing Director Michel Camdessus; the Prudential insurance company’s Group CEO Tidjane Thiam (AC Vol 40 No 2 Abidjan's anglos); and former United States Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin...

Canada and France argue that they are already giving more aid per head than Britain; Italy and Germany claim they have other development priorities in eastern and central Europe; Japan is sceptical if not totally opposed to debt cancellation; and the United States government is ideologically opposed to much of the argument in the Africa Commission even though the liberal Republican Senator Nancy Kassebaum Baker sat on the Commission and will be promoting it alongside Côte d'Ivoire's impressive Tidjane Thiam in the US Congress next week...

Amoako; Irish musician Bob Geldof; Nigerian entrepreneur Fola Adeola; United States Senator Nancy Kassebaum Baker; Canada's Minister of Finance Ralph Goodale; Ugandan Investment Authority Chairman William Kalema; Governor of the Bank of Botswana Linah Moholo; Executive Director of United Nations Habitat Tanzania's Anna Kaumulo Tibaijuka; and Development Director of Côte d'Ivoire's Aviva Tidjane Thiam...

The new Minister for Economic Planning Tidjane Thiam (whose planned trip to London has been postponed AC Vol 40 No 2) formerly of McKinsey & Co also remains in charge of the respected development agency Bureau National des Etudes Techniques de Développement (BNETD)...

Presidential privatisation Last year Octide hired Daouda Thiam former boss of SIR and brother of the new economics minister Tidjane Thiam in preparation for buying SIR when it was privatised...

After some other acquisitions Octide hired Daoudou Thiam a former Managing Director of the national oil refinery SIR (and brother of the President's Economic Advisor Tidjane Thiam)...

Also supportive are Prime Minister Daniel Kablan Duncan who is keen to see English language activities expand and Bédié's high-flying counsellor Tidjane Thiam...

The young bright Tidjane Thiam son of a PDCI-RDA veteran and Houphouët- Boigny's nephew is both head of the special projects management directorate (Bureau Nationale d'Etudes Techniques et de Développement formerly the Grands Travaux) and Bédié's special economic advisor...