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Alassane Ouattara
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Person

Alassane Ouattara

b. 1942

President of Ivory Coast since 2010

Born
1 Jan 1942 · Dimbokro
Part ofIvory Coast1905 – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 97 years
  1. 1 Jan 1942BornBorn in Dimbokro
  2. 1990 – 1993RoleMinister of the Economy and Finance of Ivory Coast
  3. 2010RolePresident of the Ivory Coast
  4. 2012 – 2013RoleChairperson of ECOWAS
  5. 2013AwardGrand Cross of the National Order of Benin
  6. 2017AwardGrand Collar of the Order of Prince Henry
  7. 2017AwardOrder of the Star of Ghana

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1942 – today).

  1. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  2. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  3. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  4. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  5. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  6. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  7. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  8. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  9. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  10. 1956Suez Crisis
  11. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  12. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  13. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  14. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  15. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  16. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  17. 1968Prague Spring
  18. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  19. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  20. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  21. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  22. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  23. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  24. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  25. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  26. 1985Schengen Agreement
  27. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  28. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  29. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  30. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  31. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  32. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  33. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  34. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
  35. 2003 – 2011Iraq War
  36. 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
  37. 20062006 FIFA World Cup
  38. 20082008 Summer Olympics
  39. 2008Russo-Georgian War
  40. 20102010 Haiti earthquake

Biography

Alassane Dramane Ouattara (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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