http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-09/credit-suisse-is-said-to-choose-thiam-as-ceo-to-succeed-dougan

This one is not Okonjo world bank experience that has left Nigerian economy in ruins.

Notables

first Ivorian to pass the entrance examination to the École Polytechnique in Paris.

In 1984, he graduated from the École Polytechnique and in 1986 from the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris where he was top of his class.[4]

He received an MBA from INSEAD in 1988 (Dean's list).

Thiam actively promoted an extensive privatisation programme which saw, between 1994 and 1999, Côte d'Ivoire lead African countries[11] by privatising its telephone, services, electric power generation, airports, railways and many companies in the agricultural sector.[9]

In 1998, the World Economic Forum in Davos named him as one of the annual 100 Global Leaders for Tomorrow, and in 1999 the Forum named him a member of the Dream Cabinet.[9]

In December 1999, whilst Thiam was abroad, the Ivorian military seized control of the government. Thiam returned to the country, where he was arrested and held for several weeks. General Guéï, the new head of state, offered him the position of chief of staff, but he declined and left the country in early 2000.[6]

CEO of Prudential- The appointment made him the first African to lead a FTSE 100 listed company