Tidjane Thiam

Tidjane Thiam

Director/Board Member at PUBLICIS GROUPE SA

Net worth: 238 655 $ as of 2024-02-28

61 year
Finance
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Tidjane Thiam (born 29 July 1962) is an Ivorian businessman and former politician who is the Chief Executive of Prudential plc, the UK-based insurance group. Born in Côte d'Ivoire, he holds dual Ivorian and French citizenship. He studied advanced mathematics and physics in France before joining the management consultants [& Company] in 1986, where he worked until 1994. From 1994 to 1999 he worked in Côte d'Ivoire first as Chief Executive of the National Bureau for Technical Studies (BNETD), reporting directly to the Prime Minister and the President, and from 1998 as both Chairman of the BNETD and Minister of Planning and Development. Following the Ivorian coup of 1999, he resumed a private sector career and rejoined McKinsey in Paris from 2000 to 2002, then worked as a senior executive for Aviva before being recruited by Prudential. When appointed the chief executive of Prudential in 2009, he became the first black person to lead a FTSE 100 company.



His father, Amadou Thiam, a journalist, was born in Senegal and emigrated to Côte d'Ivoire in 1947. He supported Houphouet-Boigny in his fight for the independence of the country and served more than 10 years in the Ivorian cabinet after independence. He was a Grand Officier de la Legion d’honneur, France’s highest order of decoration. Tidjane’s uncle, Habib Thiam, was Prime Minister of Senegal for more than 10 years and also served as President of the National Assembly.



In 1982 Thiam was the first Ivorian to pass the entrance examination to the École Polytechnique in Paris. In 1984, he graduated from the École Polytechnique and in 1986 from the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris where he was top of his class. He received an MBA from INSEAD in 1988 (Dean's list). In 1989 he took a one-year sabbatical from McKinsey to participate in the World Bank's Young Professionals Program in Washington, D.C. He returned to McKinsey in 1990, working first in New York City and then in Paris. an infrastructure development and economic advisory body with more than 4,000 staff, reporting directly to the President and the Prime Minister. In that role, which had cabinet rank, he was also handling key negotiations with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Thiam was also a key member of the Privatization Committee, in charge of privatising extensive state-owned assets.

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Known holdings in public companies

CompanyDateNumber of sharesValuationValuation date
2023-07-17 155,270 ( 0.34% ) 164 586 $ 2024-02-28
2022-12-30 700 ( 0.00% ) 74 069 $ 2024-02-28

Tidjane Thiam active positions

CompaniesPositionStart
PUBLICIS GROUPE SA Director/Board Member -
COMPLETE SOLARIA, INC. Director/Board Member 2023-07-10
Rwanda Finance Ltd. Chairman -
Credit Suisse Foundation Director/Board Member -
Corporate Officer/Principal -
Uk Asean Business Council Corporate Officer/Principal -
Corporate Officer/Principal 2010-11-28
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Former positions of Tidjane Thiam

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Director/Board Member 2023-10-31
CREDIT SUISSE GROUP AG Chief Executive Officer 2020-02-13
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Training of Tidjane Thiam

INSEAD Masters Business Admin
Ecole Polytechnique Undergraduate Degree
École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris Undergraduate Degree

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PRUDENTIAL PLC

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PUBLICIS GROUPE SA

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AVIVA PLC

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KERING

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ARKEMA

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National Bureau For Technical Studies & Development

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Uk Asean Business Council

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Credit Suisse Foundation

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Rwanda Finance Ltd.

21st Century Fox

Complete Solaria, Inc.

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