Koné Meyliet Tiemoko, New Vice-President of Côte d'Ivoire

Biography of the Governor appointed Vice-President

Tiémoko Meyliet KONE

Governor of the Central Bank (BCEAO)

Nationality: Ivorian

Other positions: Former Minister of Construction and Urban Planning and Housing

Family: Married, father of five children

Himself an economist and having already held the post of Governor of the BCEAO in the past, the President of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire could only propose to his peers the appointment of a specific candidate on the basis of convictions and a highly grounded trust.

According to our sources, the President of the Ivorian Republic knows the person concerned well for having had him as a collaborator at the BCEAO and for having entrusted him so far in his Cabinet with the important functions of Special Adviser in charge of economic and monetary issues.

Who is the new BCEAO Governor?

Our investigation reveals that Mr. R. KONE Tiémoko Meyliet is an economist by training. He is married and the father of five children.

Recruited by competition at the BCEAO after his graduate studies, then transferred to the senior management of this prestigious establishment after an 18-month training at the Technical and Professional Application Center of the BCEAO, Mr. Koné Tiémoko Meyliet accomplished most of his career at the BCEAO. He was successively:

• Deputy to the BCEAO National Director for Côte d`Ivoire

• Central Director of Issuance and Financial Operations at the BCEAO headquarters in Dakar, and as such, he was also a member of the Committee for Analysis of the internal and international situation.

• BCEAO National Director for Côte d'Ivoire and Alternate Governor at the International Monetary Fund from 1991 to 1998.

• Advisor to the Governor of the BCEAO and Director of the General Administration and Training Department.

• General Controller, in charge of supervising the operational departments of inspection, internal audit, management control and risk prevention.

• Special Advisor and member of the Bank's Government. As such, he participated in all the decisions taken for the management of the Central Bank, the design and implementation of the monetary policy of the Member States until December 2006.

Mr KONE subsequently joined the Ivorian Public Administration in 2007, where he successively held the position of Director of Cabinet of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, with the rank of Minister (2007 to 2010 ), Minister of Construction, Urban Planning and Housing

then finally, since December 2010, those of Special Advisor to the President of the Republic, in charge of Economic and Monetary Affairs.

At the BCEAO, the regulars of the institution have kept the image of a competent, very rigorous and discreet manager. Mr Koné Tiémoko Meyliet collaborated with the three successive Governors: the late Abdoulaye FADIGA, Alassane D. OUATTARA and Charles Konan BANNY.

As for his time at the Ministry of Construction, he raised a lot of hopes because of the major reforms initiated to clean up and reorganize the urban land domain. This is indeed the image that professionals in the construction, urban planning and housing sector have retained of him.

In view of his career, Mr. Koné Tiémoko Meyliet appears as a technocrat familiar with the BCEAO who should be able to validly lead and restore this monetary institution to its full potential after the recent crisis it has gone through.

Source: abidjan.net