2024-01-09 17:53:06
“In order to have the necessary availability to devote himself to his political commitments, Tidjane Thiam, elected president of the Democratic Party of Côte d’Ivoire on December 22, submitted his resignation from his mandate as administrator to the president of the board of administration of Kering”, indicates the group led by François-Henri Pinault in a press release.
Tidjane Thiam has been an independent director since June 16, 2020 and chairman of the Audit Committee. He was also a member of the Compensation Committee.
François-Henri Pinault, “on his own behalf and on behalf of the board of directors, warmly thanks Tidjane Thiam for his involvement and his contribution to the work of the board, and in particular as chairman of the Audit Committee,” according to the press release. .
The Appointments and Governance Committee “will study his replacement and launch a succession process in the coming weeks,” it is added.
Former boss of the Credit Suisse bank, following having notably headed the British insurance group Prudential, the Franco-Ivorian, aged 61, was acclaimed at the end of December in Yamoussoukro during the congress of the PDCI, the main opposition party, whose he took the lead with the 2025 presidential election in his sights.
After the father of the Ivorian nation Félix Houphouët Boigny and another former Ivorian head of state, Henri Konan Bédié, who died in August, Tidjane Thiam is the third elected president in the history of the PDCI, founded in 1946.
At the head of Côte d’Ivoire continuously from 1960 to 1999, the former single party has not accessed the supreme office for 24 years when a coup d’état chased Henri Konan Bédié from power in the evening Christmas 1999. Tidjane Thiam was then Minister of Planning and Development.
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