Tidjane Thiam elected banker of the year

Tidjane Thiam elected banker of the year at the Euromoney Awards for excellence The Franco-Ivorian, CEO of Credit Suisse since 2015, received this award at the event was held in London on Wednesday, July 11.

He was rewarded for redesigning the bank's strategy and returning to profitability over the past 3 years. Credit Suisse has also been named best investment bank in emerging markets. Born in Abidjan in 1962, T. Thiam graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Paris. He also holds an MBA from INSEAD. He began his career at McKinsey as a management consultant (1986 -1994).

He then returned to Côte d'Ivoire, where he became Director General of the National Office of Technical Studies and Development and then Minister of Planning and Development. of development. From 2002 to 2008, he was Executive Director of the Aviva Insurance Group. In 2009, he was appointed general manager of the British insurer Prudential PLC, becoming the first African head of a large insurance group in the world and also a company of the FTSE 100 (one hundred British companies best capitalized listed on the London Stock Exchange).

Patrick Ndungidi