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Alassane Ouattara

1942 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alassane Ouattara has received more than 1,266,106 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 64 in 2019). Alassane Ouattara is the 1,238th most popular politician (up from 1,870th in 2019), the most popular biography from Côte d'Ivoire and the most popular Ivorian Politician.

Alassane Ouattara is most famous for being the president of Cote d'Ivoire. He was the first president in Cote d'Ivoire's history to be elected in a democratic election.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Alassane Ouattara ranks 1,238 out of 19,576. Before him are Liz Truss, Engelbert Dollfuss, Sveinn Björnsson, Elisabeth of France, Afonso V of Portugal, and Mausolus. After him are Emperor Yingzong of Ming, Totila, Mohammed V of Morocco, Emir Abdelkader, Juba II, and Mayer Amschel Rothschild.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Alassane Ouattara ranks 29. Before him are Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Ted Kaczynski, Daniel Barenboim, Brian Jones, Calvin Klein, and Michael Haneke. After him are Werner Herzog, Javier Solana, José Eduardo dos Santos, Lou Reed, Ian McShane, and Mohamed ElBaradei.

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In Côte d'Ivoire

Among people born in Côte d'Ivoire, Alassane Ouattara ranks 1 out of 140. After him are Félix Houphouët-Boigny (1905), Didier Drogba (1978), Laurent Gbagbo (1945), Henri Konan Bédié (1934), Alpha Blondy (1953), Yaya Touré (1983), Robert Guéï (1941), Sangoulé Lamizana (1916), Ahmadou Kourouma (1927), Jean-Pierre Kutwa (1945), and Charles Konan Banny (1942).

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Among POLITICIANS In Côte d'Ivoire

Among politicians born in Côte d'Ivoire, Alassane Ouattara ranks 1. After him are Félix Houphouët-Boigny (1905), Laurent Gbagbo (1945), Henri Konan Bédié (1934), Robert Guéï (1941), Sangoulé Lamizana (1916), Charles Konan Banny (1942), Daniel Kablan Duncan (1943), Bernard Binlin Dadié (1916), Amadou Gon Coulibaly (1959), Seydou Diarra (1933), and Jeannot Ahoussou-Kouadio (1951).

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