Ex-Credit Suisse CEO To Lead Ivory Coast Opposition – OpEd

By Lisa Vives

A former CEO of Credit Suisse, Tidjane Thiam, was voted by a wide margin to head the opposition Democratic Party.

He received 95% of the vote while his opponent, Jean-Marc Yace, the mayor of Cocody in the de facto capital, Abidjan, received 3.2 percent.

Thiam, 61, an Ivorian and French businessman and the...