Alassane Ouattara: Presidential Candidate Profile for Ivory Coast 2010 Election

by Sara Atteby | 11 novembre 2010 11 h 40 min

Presidential Profile: Alassane OuattaraAlassane Dramane OUATTARA
Also known as « ADO »
(born 1 January 1942) 67 years old

Website: http://www.adosolutions.ci/ado/home.php
Contact: http://www.adosolutions.ci/ado/lire.php?link=contact

Representing the RDR (Rally of Republicans) Political Party in 2010 Presidential Elections in the Ivory Coast


Statement
(French version: http://www.adosolutions.ci/ado/lire.php?link=politique)

I am running in the next presidential election because I love my country; I want and I can be useful to my countrymen and women.
So it is for you, for your family and for Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) that I present myself.

I am the candidate of the Union for Peace and Change
If you trust me, together, in new found peace and in an unshakable faith in our nation, we will make every Ivorian, all Ivorians, Men and Women, happy and prosperous.

Alassane Ouattara

(Translation by Sara Atteby)



Work History



Education
1972: PHD in Economic Sciences
1967: University of Pennsylvania Master of Arts in Economy
1962: Drexel Institute of Technology Bachelor of Science in Informatics


Family
Currently married to Dominique NOUVIAN: Entrepreneur and President & founder of Children of Africa Foundation (Also with two children from a previous marriage: Loïc et Nathalie FOLLOROUX)

First wife: Barbara JEAN DAVIS
With whom he had two children: Dramane David and Fanta Catherine OUATTARA (who has two children: Eric Alassane et Alexis Lanciné).


Religion
Practicing Muslim, his wife Dominique NOUVIAN is Catholic.


Hobbies


Representation in the Diaspora:
United Kingdom: http://www.rdruk.org/
USA: http://www.rdrci.org/sections/masection/usanews.asp

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