Tidjane Thiam

Group Chief Executive of Prudential plc since 2009. He joined Prudential as CFO in 2008. He started his career with McKinsey & Company. He was Chief Executive and later Chairman of the National Bureau for Technical Studies and Development in Côte d’Ivoire (1994-1999). In 1998, he was appointed Secretary of Planning and Development. After the coup d’état in 1999, he went back to McKinsey and then joined Aviva, successively holding the positions of Group Strategy and Development Director, Managing Director of Aviva International, and finally Group Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer, Europe. He graduated from the École Polytechnique and the École des Mines de Paris. He holds a MBA from INSEAD. He is Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur.