Alassane Ouattara

Alassane Ouattara
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Alassane Ouattara GColIH
	Ouattara in 2017
5th President of Ivory Coast
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 4 December 2010
Prime Minister	Guillaume Soro; Jeannot Ahoussou-Kouadio; Daniel Kablan Duncan; Amadou Gon Coulibaly; Hamed Bakayoko; Patrick Achi; Robert Beugré Mambé
Vice President	Daniel Kablan Duncan; Tiémoko Meyliet Koné
Preceded by	Laurent Gbagbo
Prime Minister of the Ivory Coast
	In office; 7 November 1990 – 9 December 1993
President	Félix Houphouët-Boigny
Preceded by	Félix Houphouët-Boigny
Succeeded by	Daniel 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 by	Abdoulaye Fadiga
Succeeded by	Charles Konan Banny
Personal details
Born	1 January 1942; Dimbokro, French West Africa; (present-day Côte d'Ivoire)
Political party	Democratic Party (Before 1994); Rally of the Republicans (1994–present)
Spouses	; Barbara Jean Davis (m. 1966, divorced) Dominique Nouvian (m. 1991)
Children	2
Relatives	Téné Birahima Ouattara (brother)
Alma mater	Drexel University (BS); University of Pennsylvania (MA, PhD)
Website	Official 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) 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. Ouattara became the President of the Rally of the Republicans (RDR), an Ivorian political party, in 1999.

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