Tiémoko Meyliet Koné (born 26 April 1949) is an Ivorian economist and politician. He has served as

Vice-President of Ivory Coast The Vice President of the Republic of Ivory Coast, officially the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is the second-highest executive official in Ivory Coast. The vice president is appointed by the president, with the consent of the Parliament, composed ...

since April 2022.

Early life

Koné was born 26 April 1949 in

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. He is part of the

Senoufo The Senufo people, also known as Siena, Senefo, Sene, Senoufo, and Syénambélé, are a West African ethnolinguistic group. They consist of diverse subgroups living in a region spanning the northern Ivory Coast, the southeastern Mali and the wes ...

ethnic group. He is married and has 5 children.

Career

Koné joined the

Central Bank of West African States The Central Bank of West African States (french: Banque Centrale des États de l'Afrique de l'Ouest, BCEAO) is a central bank serving the eight west African countries which share the common West African CFA franc currency and comprise the West Af ...

(BCEAO) in 1975. He served as BCEAO National Director and Alternate Governor at the IMF from 1991 to 1998. Koné was Chairman of the Board of Directors of the UEMOA Pension Fund (CRRAE-UEMOA) from 1996 to 2006. During his career at the BCEAO, he became good friends with another Ivorian banker,

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to take Koné as chief of staff. He served as chief of staff from 2007 to 2010. Koné became Minister of Construction, Urban Planning and Housing in 2010 in the Soro government, then Special Advisor to the President of the Republic, in charge of Economic and Monetary Affairs. In September 2017, he was elected as a member of the Board of Directors of the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI) in which he represented the regions of sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and South Africa. He served as BCEAO governor from 2011 to 2022. Koné was appointed Vice-President by Alassane Ouattara on 19 April 2022. He thus became the deputy of the President. He was sworn in on 20 April 2022 by the Constitutional Council. President Ouattara commented; “Tiémoko Meyliet Koné is a brilliant economist, an outstanding technocrat, a competent and hardworking man who has my full confidence.”

Recognition

* Grand Officer of the National Order of Benin and Officer of the French Legion of Honor * Commander of the National Order of Ivory Coast * Commander of the National Order of Guinea Bissau * Commander of the International Academic Palms from CAMES (African and Malagasy Council for Higher Education).

References

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