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Alassane Dramane Ouattara was born on January 1, in Dimbokro, Ivory Coast. Completing his primary education in Côte d'Ivoire, Ouattara finished his secondary education in Upper Volta, now known as Burkina Faso.

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He then proceeded to the United States and received a Baccalaureate in Elementary Mathematics from Drexel Institute of Technology, followed by a Master's and Ph.D in Economics at the University of Pennsylvania by

In April , Ouattara joined the infamous International Monetary Fund (IMF) and in , joined the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO) and became Deputy Governor there in Two years later, Ouattara returned to the IMF to serve as Director of Africa and succeeded Abdoulaye Fadiga at the head of the sub-regional institution.

In early , he joined the government of Ivoirian President Felix Houphouet-Boignyas and took an unelected position as Prime Minister at the end of this same year.

Following the death of President Houphouet-Boigny in , Ouattara returned to the IMF and was appointed to Deputy CEO in Finally, in he seceded his position at IMF to run in the Ivoirian presidential election. In October , an Ivoirian court canceled his nationality certificate, thus nullifying his eligibility as a presidential candidate by the Constitutional amendment that a presidential candidate has to be of Ivoirian birth, of direct Ivoirian descent, and a continuous resident in Côte d'Ivoire for 10 years.

This also nullified his eligibility to run in the Ivoirian presidential election.

In , Ouattara was permitted as a presidential candidate in the elections by incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo. Despite fraudulent electoral results reported, Alassane Ouattara was declared to be winner by the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI), though the only authority to legitimize results is the nation's Constitutional Council who has declared Gbagbo as winner.

 

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Election eligibility: pp in "Africa South of the Sahara ".

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