Alassane Ouattara
| Alassane Ouattara | |
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| 5th President of the Ivory Coast | |
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Assumed office 4 December 2010 |
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| Prime Minister |
Guillaume Soro Jeannot Ahoussou-Kouadio Daniel Kablan Duncan Amadou Gon Coulibaly |
| Vice President | Daniel Kablan Duncan (Interim) |
| Preceded by | Laurent Gbagbo |
| Prime Minister of the Ivory Coast | |
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In office 7 November 1990 – 9 December 1993 |
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| President | Félix Houphouët-Boigny |
| Preceded by | Félix Houphouët-Boigny |
| Succeeded by | Daniel Kablan Duncan |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
1 January 1942 Dimbokro, French West Africa (now Côte d’Ivoire) |
| Political party |
Democratic Party (Before 1994) Rally of the Republicans 1994–present) |
| Spouse(s) | Dominique Nouvian (1991–present) |
| Alma mater |
Drexel University University of Pennsylvania |
| Religion | Sunni Islam (Maliki) |
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Alassane Dramane Ouattara (French pronunciation: [alasan wataʁa]; born 1 January 1942) is a Ivorian politician who has been President of Côte d'Ivoire since 2010. An economist by profession, Ouattara worked for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) - and the Central Bank of West African States (French: Banque Centrale des États de l'Afrique de l'Ouest, BCEAO), and he was the Prime Minister of Côte d'Ivoire from November 1990 to December 1993, appointed to that post by President Félix Houphouët-Boigny. Ouattara became the President of the Rally of the Republicans (RDR), an Ivorian political party, in 1999.
Ouattara was born on 1 January 1942 in Dimbokro in French West Africa. He is a descendant on his father's side of the Muslim rulers of Burkina Faso, then part of the Kong Empire (aka the Wattara (Ouattarra) Empire); Ouattara himself is of Muslim background. He received a bachelor of science degree in 1965 from the Drexel Institute of Technology, which is now called Drexel University, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ouattara then obtained both his master's degree in economics in 1967 and a PhD in economics in 1972 from the University of Pennsylvania.
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