Tidjane Thiam

Chief Executive Officer, Prudential Plc

Tidjane Thiam has been Group Chief Executive of Prudential plc of Prudential Corporation Asia Limited and AIA Group Limited since October 1, 2009. Mr. Thiam served as Chief Financial Officer of Prudential plc. from March 25, 2008 to September 30, 2009 and served as its Head of European Operations. He served as Group Finance Director of Prudential plc. since September 21, 2007.

He was previously Chief Executive Officer, Europ at Aviva, where he also held successively the positions of Group Strategy and Development Director and Managing Director, Aviva International.

Prior to that, Tidjane was a partner with McKinsey & Company in France and one of the leaders of their Finanicial Instiutions practice, focusing on insurance companies and banks.

Earlier in his career, he spent a number of years in Africa where he was Chief Executive and then Chairman of the National Bureau for Technical Studies and Development in Cote d'Ivoire and a cabinet member as Minister of Planning and Development.

He is a non-executive director of Arkema in France, a member of the Council of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) in London and a sponsor of Opportunity International, a charity focusing on microfinance in developing countries.

Tidjane was born in July 1962 and holds engineering degrees from the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris (top of his class), and an MBA from INSEAD.