Mr Tidjane
THIAM

École Polytechnique Paris, France (1984); Ingénieur Civil des Mines, École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris, France (1986); Master of Business Administration, INSEAD, France (1988)

McKinsey & Company, Paris, London and New York - Consultant (1986- 1994); The World Bank, Washington, DC, USA (one year sabbatical from McKinsey as Young Professional) (1989-1990); National Bureau for Technical Studies & Development, Côte d’Ivoire - Chief Executive Officer, (1994-1998); National Bureau for Technical Studies & Development - Chairman of the Board, Minister of Planning and Development, Côte d’Ivoire (1998-1999); McKinsey & Company - Partner (2000-2002); Aviva - Group Strategy & Development Director (2002-2004), Managing Director, International (2004-2006), Chief Executive, Europe (2006-2007); Prudential plc - Chief Financial Officer (2007-2009), Group Chief Executive (2009-2015); Credit Suisse – Group Chief Executive Officer, Chairman of the Executive Board (2015-2020); Kering S.A - Member of the Board, Chair of the Audit Committee, Member of the Remuneration Committee (2020 – 2023); Rwanda Finance Limited - Chairman of the Board (2020–); Freedom Acquisition I Corporation - Executive Chairman (2021-2023); Publicis Groupe - Member of the Supervisory Board (2022–); Complete Solaria - Board Member (2023–); Democratic Party of the Ivory Coast (PDCI RDA) - President (December 2023–)

Judo; Taekwondo; Football; Handball; Basketball; Athletics (long/high jump, 100m and 400m sprint); Rowing

21st Century Fox, Member of the Board of Directors (2014-2019) and of the Audit Committee (2018-2019); Member, Group of Thirty (G30) (2015-); Council of Foreign Relations - Global Board of Advisors (2016-); Council for Inclusive Capitalism (2020 – 2022); Hoffmann Global Institute of Business and Society INSEAD - Member of the Advisory Board (2021–)

Member of Tony Blair’s Commission for Africa (2004); Africa Progress Panel (2007 - 2017); Chair of the G20 High Level Panel on infrastructure, appointed by Presidents Obama and Sarkozy (2011); UK Trade Ambassador (2010-2015); Member of David Cameron’s business council (2010-2015); Chairman of the Board, Association of British Insurers (2012-2014); Member of the International Business Council (IBC) of the WEF (2014-); Co-chair, WEF Annual Meeting (2016); African Union - Special Envoy for Covid-19 (2020 – 2022); David Cameron’s Council on State Fragility (2020 – 2023)

Member of the Finance Commission (2020-)

WEF, Global Leader for Tomorrow (1997); INSEAD Alumnus of the year (2007); One of ‘50 INSEAD Alumni’ who changed the world (2009); Time 100 award (2010); Most influential Black Person in the UK (2010); Chevalier of the French Légion d’honneur (2011); African Banker Icon by the African Banker Magazine (2015); Doctor of Law, honoris causa, The University of Warwick (2016); Euromoney “Banker of the Year” (2018)