Alassane Ouattara: Presidential Candidate Profile for Ivory Coast 2010 Election

by Sara Atteby | 11 novembre 2010 11 h 40 min

Alassane Dramane OUATTARA
Also known as « ADO »
(born 1 January 1942) 67 years old

Website: http://www.adosolutions.ci/ado/home.php
Contact: http://www.adosolutions.ci/ado/lire.php?link=contact

Representing the RDR (Rally of Republicans) Political Party in 2010 Presidential Elections in the Ivory Coast

Statement
(French version: http://www.adosolutions.ci/ado/lire.php?link=politique)

I am running in the next presidential election because I love my country; I want and I can be useful to my countrymen and women.
So it is for you, for your family and for Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) that I present myself.

I am the candidate of the Union for Peace and Change
If you trust me, together, in new found peace and in an unshakable faith in our nation, we will make every Ivorian, all Ivorians, Men and Women, happy and prosperous.

Alassane Ouattara

Work History

• Aug. 2007 – Now: Re-elected as President of the RDR
• Aug. 1999 President of the RDR
• Jul. 1994 – Jul. 1999: Deputy Managing Director at IMF (International Monetary Fund)

• Nov. 1990 – Dec. 1993: Prime Minister of Côte d’Ivoire (sworn in on November 7, 1990). Carried out presidential duties while Houphouët-Boigny was ill from Mar. 1993 to Dec. 1993

• Apr. 1990 – Nov. 1990: Chairman of the Interministerial Committee for Coordination of the Stabilization and Economic Recovery Programme of Côte d’Ivoire (Appointed by President Félix Houphouët-Boigny)

• Oct. 1988 – Nov. 1990: Governor of the BCEAO (Central Bank of West African States) sworn in on December 22, 1988

• Nov. 1984 – Oct. 1988: Director of the African Department at the IMF (International Monetary Fund)

• Jan. 1983 – Oct. 1984: BCEAO (Central Bank of West African States) Vice Governor

• Feb. 1975 – Dec. 1982: BCEAO (Central Bank of West African States) Special Advisor to the Governor and Director of Research

• 1973 – 1975: BCEAO (Central Bank of West African States) Chargé de Mission in Paris

• 1968 – 1973: Economist for the IMF (International Monetary Fund) in Washington, D.C.

Education
1972: PHD in Economic Sciences
1967: University of Pennsylvania Master of Arts in Economy
1962: Drexel Institute of Technology Bachelor of Science in Informatics


Family
Currently married to Dominique NOUVIAN: Entrepreneur and President & founder of Children of Africa Foundation (Also with two children from a previous marriage: Loïc et Nathalie FOLLOROUX)

First wife: Barbara JEAN DAVIS
With whom he had two children: Dramane David and Fanta Catherine OUATTARA (who has two children: Eric Alassane et Alexis Lanciné).


Religion
Practicing Muslim, his wife Dominique NOUVIAN is Catholic.


Hobbies

• Football (Soccer)
• Basketball
• Swimming
• Ping-pong
• Reading

Representation in the Diaspora:
United Kingdom: http://www.rdruk.org/
USA: http://www.rdrci.org/sections/masection/usanews.asp

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