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2007 to 2009. He more than tripled Prudential’s market capitalization during his tenure from approx. $17 billion in
2009 to over $60 billion in 2015. In 2012, Tidjane was elected Chairman by his peers of the Association of British
Insurance Companies (ABI). Tidjane was appointed by Prime Minister David Cameron on the Prime Minister’s
Business Advisory Group and he was also a UK Trade Ambassador.

In 2002, Tidjane was headhunted by Aviva, then the largest British Insurance Company to move from Paris to
London and be its Group Strategy Director, reporting to the CEO. In 2005, he became CEO of Aviva Europe leading
the largest division in the Group with a portfolio of 15 countries across Europe.

From 2000 to 2002, Tidjane was a partner with McKinsey and Company where he was one of the leaders of its
Financial Institutions Group, advising insurance companies and banks.

Before his return to the private sector in 2000, Tidjane had extensive experience in the public sector. In 1994, he
returned to his native Ivory Coast where he held senior government positions until the December 1999 Coup d’Etat.
As CEO of the Direction et Contrôle des Grands Travaux (DCGTx), which he later turned into the Bureau National
d’Etudes Techniques et de Développement (BNETD), reporting to both the President and the Prime Minister, he
was mostly in charge of infrastructure development, privatizations and relations with the World Bank and the IMF.

In this capacity, he developed some of the first BOTs and BOOs in Africa, including the Azito Power Plant, first
non-recourse IPP in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Abidjan International Airport, the Abidjan Toll Bridge, the Urban Train,
the Abidjan Bassam Highway, the Parc des Expositions and many others. In 1998, Tidjane was appointed Minister
of Planning and Development and promoted to Chairman of the BNETD. When Tidjane left, the Ivory Coast had
become a top 10 client of the IFC globally and Tidjane was designated by the World Economic Forum as a member
of the 20th Century Dream Cabinet.