Tidjane Thiam

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Tidjane Thiam (2015)

Tidjane Cheick Thiam (born July 29, 1962 in Abidjan ) is an Ivorian - French manager and former minister of the Ivory Coast. From 2015 to 2020 he was Chairman of the Executive Board ( Group CEO ) of Credit Suisse .

Life

Tidjane Thiam is a descendant of Yamousso, a ruler of the Baule , after whom the Ivorian capital Yamoussoukro is named. His mother Marietou Thiam was a niece of Félix Houphouët-Boigny , the first president of the Ivory Coast. His father Amadou Thiam (1923–2009) was a journalist, diplomat and politician who had emigrated from Senegal and was honored as a Grand Officier of the Légion d'honneur . Thiam's uncle Habib was Prime Minister of Senegal for over ten years.

Thiam graduated from the École polytechnique in Paris from 1982 to 1984 and graduated from Mines ParisTech in 1986 as one of the best . He was then offered an internship at McKinsey . As part of the internship, he successfully took part in a one-year MBA program at Insead .

In 1994 Thiam returned to Ivory Coast. Until 1998 he headed the Bureau National d'Études Techniques et de Développement (National Bureau for Technical Studies and Development) . From 1998 to 1999 he was Minister for Planning and Development in a government under Prime Minister Daniel Kablan Duncan . When Robert Guéï led a military coup in 1999, Thiam was in Paris on vacation. On his return he was briefly placed under house arrest, but was soon released, after which he left the country.

After that he was a partner for McKinsey in Paris until 2002. Until 2008 he held a managerial position at Aviva , the fifth largest insurer in the world. In 2008 he became CFO of the insurance group Prudential plc in London , and in 2009 he became Group Chief Executive.

In 2015 he left Prudential and replaced Brady W. Dougan as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Credit Suisse Group on July 1, 2015 . On February 7, 2020, he announced his resignation on February 14, after an affair surrounding the shadowing of two resigned management board members (Iqbal Khan, Head of International Asset Management, and Personnel Manager Peter Goerke) had damaged the bank's reputation . After an internal bank investigation, Thiam was described as completely exonerated; he didn't know anything about the shadows. His successor as Group CEO is Thomas Gottstein , who until then was the head of CS Switzerland.

Thiam is divorced, has two sons and lives in Herrliberg .

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Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Tidjane Thiam Chief Executive Officer
  2. ^ Tidjane Thiam: the man from the Pru's beginnings in Ivory Coast
  3. ↑ Samuel Gerber: Tidjane Thiam needs a counterattack against the “UBS pitch”. In: finews .ch of June 30, 2015.
  4. ↑ Michael Ferber: New CEO at CS. Dougan leaves construction sites behind. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of March 10, 2015, accessed on March 11, 2015.
  5. ↑ Credit Suisse CEO Thiam resigns. SRF.ch, February 7, 2020
  6. ↑ Christian Dorer , Guido Schätti: "I'm not interested in good news". In: SonntagsBlick from June 2, 2019.
  7. ↑ Bilderberg Participants 2019. Accessed June 1, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Thiam, Tidjane
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thiam, Tidjane Cheick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ivorian-French manager and former minister
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Abidjan , Ivory Coast