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Tidjane Thiam
Mary Ann Sieghart profiles Tidjane Thiam, the Ivory Coast-born chief executive of Prudential and the first black person to head a FTSE 100 company.
Mary Ann Sieghart profiles Tidjane Thiam, the Ivory Coast-born chief executive of Prudential.
He is the first black person to head a FTSE 100 company and describes himself as 'African, francophone and 6ft 4ins'. Others describe him as 'the most interesting man in insurance'. This week he brokered a deal which could make his company the biggest insurer in South East Asia.
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