Alassane Ouattara
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| 5th President of Ivory Coast | |
| Assumed office 4 December 2010[a] | |
| Prime Minister | Guillaume Soro Jeannot Ahoussou-Kouadio Daniel Kablan Duncan Amadou Gon Coulibaly Hamed Bakayoko Patrick Achi Robert Beugré Mambé |
| Vice President | Daniel Kablan Duncan Tiémoko Meyliet Koné |
| Preceded by | Laurent Gbagbo |
| 2nd Prime Minister of the Ivory Coast | |
| In office 7 November 1990 – 9 December 1993 | |
| President | Félix Houphouët-Boigny |
| Preceded by | Félix Houphouët-Boigny |
| Succeeded by | Daniel Kablan Duncan |
| 24th Minister of the Economy and Finance | |
| In office October 1990 – November 1993 | |
| 30th Deputy Director General of the International Monetary Fund | |
| In office 1994–1999 | |
| 25th Governor of the Central Bank of West African States | |
| In office December 1988 – November 1990 | |
| Preceded by | Abdoulaye Fadiga |
| Succeeded by | Charles Konan Banny |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1 January 1942 Dimbokro, Ivory Coast |
| Political party | Democratic Party (Before 1994) Rally of the Republicans (1994–present) |
| Spouses | Barbara Jean Davis
(m. 1966, divorced)Dominique Nouvian (m. 1991) |
| Children | 2 |
| Relatives | Téné Birahima Ouattara (brother) |
| Alma mater | Drexel University (BS) University of Pennsylvania (MA, PhD) |
| Website | Official Presidential website |
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Alassane Dramane Ouattara (ⓘ; French pronunciation: [alasan wataʁa]; born 1 January 1942) is an Ivorian politician and economist who has been President of Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) since 2010. An economist by profession, he worked for the International Monetary Fund (IMF)[1] and the Central Bank of West African States (French: Banque Centrale des Etats de l'Afrique de l'Ouest, BCEAO), and was the Prime Minister of Côte d'Ivoire from November 1990 to December 1993, appointed to that post by then-President Félix Houphouët-Boigny.[2][3][4][5] Ouattara became the president of the Rally of the Republicans (RDR), an Ivorian political party, in 1999.
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- ^ "Ivory Coast's Alassane Ouattara in profile" Archived 20 June 2018 at the Wayback Machine, BBC News, 11 April 2011.
- ^ "Profile at IMF website". Archived from the original on 21 December 2005. Retrieved 2011-04-11.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link), 12 December 2005. - ^ CV at Ouattara's website Archived 9 November 2007 at the Wayback Machine (in French).
- ^ "A tale of 2 presidents". CBC News. 25 March 2011. Archived from the original on 26 October 2020. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
- ^ "Gbagbo: Preventing ECOWAS military misadventure in Cote d'Ivoire". Archived from the original on 8 July 2011.