Tidjane Thiam
Tidjane has been an executive director of Prudential and group chief financial officer since March 2008. Tidjane was appointed CEO designate on the 19th March 2009 and will become CEO on the 30th September 2009.
He was previously chief executive officer, Europe at Aviva, where he also held successively the positions of Group Strategy and development director and managing director, Aviva International.
Prior to that, Tidjane was a partner with McKinsey & Company in France and one of the leaders of their Financial Institutions practice, focusing on insurance companies and banks.
Earlier in his career, he spent a number of years in Africa where he was chief executive and then chairman of the National Bureau for Technical Studies and Development in Cote d'Ivoire and a cabinet member as Minister of Planning and Development.
He is a non-executive director of Arkema in France, a member of the Council of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) in London and a sponsor of Opportunity International, a charity focusing on microfinance in developing countries.
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