Alassane Ouattara

Alassane Ouattara
Ouattara in 2024
5th President of Ivory Coast
Assumed office
4 December 2010[a]
Prime MinisterGuillaume Soro
Jeannot Ahoussou-Kouadio
Daniel Kablan Duncan
Amadou Gon Coulibaly
Hamed Bakayoko
Patrick Achi
Robert Beugré Mambé
Vice PresidentDaniel Kablan Duncan
Tiémoko Meyliet Koné
Preceded byLaurent Gbagbo
Prime Minister of the Ivory Coast
In office
7 November 1990 – 9 December 1993
PresidentFélix Houphouët-Boigny
Preceded byFélix Houphouët-Boigny
Succeeded byDaniel Kablan Duncan
Minister of the Economy and Finance
In office
October 1990 – November 1993
Deputy Director General of the International Monetary Fund
In office
1994–1999
Governor of the Central Bank of West African States
In office
December 1988 – November 1990
Preceded byAbdoulaye Fadiga
Succeeded byCharles Konan Banny
Personal details
Born (1942-01-01) 1 January 1942 (age 82)
Dimbokro, French West Africa
(present-day Côte d'Ivoire)
Political partyDemocratic Party (Before 1994)
Rally of the Republicans (1994–present)
Spouses
Barbara Jean Davis
(m. 1966, divorced)
(m. 1991)
Children2
RelativesTéné Birahima Ouattara (brother)
Alma materDrexel University (BS)
University of Pennsylvania (MA, PhD)
WebsiteOfficial Presidential website

Alassane Dramane Ouattara (US; 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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  1. ^ "Ivory Coast's Alassane Ouattara in profile" Archived 20 June 2018 at the Wayback Machine, BBC News, 11 April 2011.
  2. ^ "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.
  3. ^ CV at Ouattara's website Archived 9 November 2007 at the Wayback Machine (in French).
  4. ^ "A tale of 2 presidents". CBC News. 25 March 2011. Archived from the original on 26 October 2020. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
  5. ^ "Gbagbo: Preventing ECOWAS military misadventure in Cote d'Ivoire". Archived from the original on 8 July 2011.