"I am black, French and I measure 1.93 meters. Here's how Tidjane describes himself himself a headhunter British came to offer him a position with Aviva in 2002. This polytechnician Franco-Ivorian then 40 years and worked for international consulting firm McKinsey study. Yet he prefers to prevent the caller who asked him to go to an interview for a position at the first insurer in the United Kingdom.

At that time, Tidjane was scalded by all its difficulties in finding a position to match its ambitions in France. However, his resume is not supposed to let recruiters indifferent. Born into a family of Côte d'Ivoire, son of former Ivorian Minister of Information and an illiterate mother until his thirty years Tidjane joined the cream of French schools in a faultless display.After preparatory classes, he pocketed his diploma from the Ecole Polytechnique in 1984 and parade on the Champs Elysees on July 14. He also wins a civil engineering degree Mines de Paris is a major promotion in 1986. The same year he completed this course with an MBA at Insead.

The fight against the discrimination he experienced in France became one of his fights. In a text entitled "What does being French," written for the think-tank "Institut Montaigne," the man tells her "frustration" when one of her classmates became hunter head told him to have his name struck off the list "because the answer was invariably: profile interesting and impressive, but you understand … '. He said he tired of constantly hitting the "glass ceiling" image means economic difficulties of a class of person to get to a position of responsibility.Term frequently used for women.

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Before the episode Aviva Tidjane fled discrimination in the economic world to take refuge in politics. With again, an extraordinary journey. After his degree, he took a sabbatical to attend the Young Professionals Program of the World Bank. A training program designed to attract the best young talent around the world. In 1994, he accepted a post as head of the National Bureau of Technical Studies and Development of the new President of Côte d'Ivoire, Henri Konan Bédié, he proposes. It will occupy until the coup of December 1999.

In August 1998, he became Minister of Planning and Development of his homeland. That same year he was selected among the "100 most promising leaders of tomorrow 'Forum in Davos (Young Global Leaders of Tomorrow).He was elected member of Dream Cabinet in 1999 and the Consultative Council of the Institute of the World Bank. With his little glasses and his smile, Tidjane convincing as Tony Blair. The British prime minister at the time chose to be a member of his Commission for Africa.

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In 2002, Tidjane closes the parenthesis policy by accepting a position with Aviva as director of strategy and development. He opts for the Great Britain said that "very tolerant and very open." Ambitious, Tidjane quickly climbed the ranks to become CEO of the biggest insurer in Britain. So when he decided to "downgrade" to the position of CFO at the competitor Prudential in September 2007, the new surprises. "This is not common.It almost never happens except when the directors of the divisions run much smaller, "says Gavin Hinks, British journalist. "Tidjane is obviously a very talented and ambitious. This is clearly someone who is being tipped for the top and should not remain very long time CFO.

The reporter was right. In October 2009, Tidjane becomes CEO of Prudential. He became the first passage to black to head a multinational FTSE 100. The City is also in love. So much so that she heartily applauded his promotion.

Today, the strategic choices of the Ecole Polytechnique are unanimously. The latest to Asia is no exception to the rule. Five months after his arrival at the head of Prudential, the group set out to conquer the biggest emerging market in the world.When Tidjane formalized the acquisition of Asian operations of AIG by a transaction colossal $ 35.5 billion, the news has excited all the financial centers of the United States to Asia via Europe. Incidentally, Prudential has also returned to profit in 2009, with a net profit of 676 million pounds (about 755 million euros) over the past year, against a loss of 396 million pounds (493 million euros ) a year earlier.

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After a session with no real trend on Monday (0.07% to 10,205.02 points), Asian stock markets resume upward trend Tuesday. The Nikkei 225 ended the session sharply higher by 1.63%, driven by gains on Wall Street yesterday, the relative stability of the yen and the revival of the Toyota shares after the announcement of a cure his technical problem. At the close, the Nikkei 225 index of blue chips gained 166.07 points (1.63%) to receive at 10,371.09 points.The broader Topix index of all securities in the first table has taken his side 14.21 points (1.58%) to 912.82 points in a market where activity has yet revealed quite low, with 1.88 billion shares traded on the market first.

Japanese carmaker Toyota said Monday that the pieces to solve the problem of having pedal forced to recall millions of cars in the world begin to arrive in Europe "next week".

The U.S. and European stock markets have led the way Monday, the Dow Jones, the CAC 40, FTSE 100 and Dax gaining 30 respectively 1.18%, 0.60%, 1.14%, 0.81%.

Rising commodity prices including gold and oil strongly favors trading companies and oil companies. While the weaker yen against the dollar makes exporting values to increase.The dollar goes back into effect at 90.84 yen.

The oil companies and trading companies benefit

The export values are not to be outdone, Canon Inc. gained 2.7% to 3610 yen, Sony Corp. takes 3.3% to 3160 yen and Kyocera progressed by 2.1% to 8320 yen payday loans .

Regards, Toyota Motor Corp., which has been battered recently on Tuesday, the share jumped from 5.5% to 3640 yen after the announcement of the detailed plan of repair of vehicles recalled by the manufacturer.

The oil companies are the big winners include the results better than expected Exxon published yesterday on Wall Street. The refiner, Nippon Oil gained 5.3% to 441 yen and Nippon Mining Holdings, whose principal activities include oil refining rose 5.2% to 407 yen. Cosmo Oil takes 2.6% to 200 yen. The tanker Inpex was up 2.3%.Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. gained 1.5%.

Trading companies also take their game well, Mitsui & Co climbed 3.8% to 1342 yen, Mitsubishi Corp jumped 4.5% to 2237 yen and Itochu Corpb rose 2.9% to 709 yen.

Among the values sharply down, the action of Tecmo Koei Holdings Manufacturer of video games fell 9.5% to 630 yen after the announcement of a delay in the launch of some key games such as "Quantum Theory" and of lowering its forecast for annual operating profit by 97%.

From the financial side, Nomura Holdings (+1.6%) announced Tuesday for the third quarter, a third positive quarterly result in a row. Between October and December, net profit reached 10.2 billion yen (77 million euros).

Softbank gained 3.8%.The telecommunications group introduced on Tuesday a net profit for the first three quarters of fiscal 2009/2010 to 94.86 billion yen (711 million euros), up 63% over one year. A result supported by the mobile business.

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Le Figaro. Why start a new international conference?

Richard Attias. – It lacked an event exclusively dedicated to economic issues. It is a central issue both for policymakers and for the general public who suffers face opacity and inconsistency of financial news. In 18 months, nearly 60% of business leaders have changed. A new generation arrives at the controls ready to transform existing business models. He needs a place for dialogue which aims to be pragmatic, that is the vocation of the New York Forum.

How does the New York Forum, from Davos?

I worked 13 years in the organization of Davos remains a very nice event overall, covering dozens of topics with thousands of participants.The New York Forum, it will be "100% business" and located in the heart of New York, which embodies the essence of the vitality and entrepreneurship.

How did you design the event?

It is above all, a platform dedicated to collaborations and partnerships. I work for several states with SWFs are very demanding lighting and development relationship with the business. As for regulators, they are increasingly present. These are all players that we will meet, by invitation, without exceeding the 500 participants, half of which will end U.S. market. My experience leads me to prefer this size to remain productive and systematically guide the discussions towards future action. The forum will take place on 22, 23, June 24Why not lead to a series of proposals which would be submitted 48 hours later, the G20 Toronto? We thus completing the bridge creating with policymakers.

What role will the "New York Times?

Arthur Sulzberger (Chairman of the New York Times editor's note) was immediately captivated by the project and made a look as exciting as constructive. His newspaper is the official media sponsor of the forum, including the closing ceremony will be held at the magnificent New York Times. But beyond this prestigious partnership, I stress the educational dimension of the event. The expectation of the general public for decryption is immense in the field of economics. We must respond in order to reconstruct the conditions of the trust.

Who owns the New York Forum "?

At The Experience, the company I founded in May 2008, after leaving the Publicis group in which I had spent ten years of personal business card . So I sold the 40% of the shares that I held in Publicis Live, Geneva, and I wanted to create a structure dedicated to the design and production of proprietary events. This is the case of the New York Forum "The Experience which takes only funding. My desire is to get involved so the full content of the events j'orchestre. This was already partly the case with the Conference of Nobel Laureates in Petra.

Meanwhile, you've made a detour via Dubai. Have you lost money?

No, because I had not personal assets.I was asked to take the reins of the Dubai Events Management, a Crown corporation in which no private person can not hold shares. I've recruited about thirty employees. Our mission was to exploit the strategic location of Dubai and its fabulous infrastructure, to make it one of the largest producers of world events. We have thus established the "Dubai Fashion Week, started the rehabilitation of the old neighborhood" Al Bastakya, partnered with ESPN, the sports channel from Disney, and the Metropolitan Opera in New York. On my suggestion that this company was, in 2009, sleep, given the international economic situation. I took the opportunity to relaunch The Experience that state of Dubai has helped me to locate there.Our headquarters is in New York we also have branches in Paris and Saudi Arabia.

What other accomplishments of The Experience?

In June 2009, we orchestrated the tenth anniversary of the accession to the throne of King of Jordan, which was attended by 15 000 people. We then set up in Bahrain, an international forum devoted to education. Its success led us to organize the second edition in October. Finally, we put our know-how to the foundation of my wife, Cecilia, who is dedicated to the cause of women around the world. Precisely parallel the New York Forum, there will be a conference called "Dialog for Action". It aims to bring together, on the one hand, NGOs involved in defending the rights of women and on the other, business leaders, politicians, and various experts.Again, the goal is to achieve a plan of action. A commitment.

As the situation worsens indebted French, Crédit Municipal de Paris offers a new personal loan that will follow the fluctuations of the budget of a borrower. "This loan applies for the first time consumer credit adapts to clients' lives that evolves over time," explains the Figaro.fr Emmanuel Bouriez, Director General of Crédit Municipal de Paris. The institution with a social means product support vulnerable people, particularly those that feed on a new project but who have already contracted one or more revolving loans. This new offset their loan reduces the amount of monthly payments when their incomes fall and to revise upwards if they were to increase.To sum borrowed less than 20,000 euros, no guarantee is requested to the borrower and ultimately, the loan will cost "up to three times cheaper" than a revolving credit "classical" says Crédit Municipal de Paris . Proposed by many specialized credit institutions, revolving funds are to make available to the consumer a sum of money on a particular account permanently but whose interest rates very high, usually ranging from 16 to 22%. The phrase "Reducto-flex" as proposed in January by Crédit Municipal de Paris, will match the interest rate personal loans, a rate between 6% and 7%.

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In a letter he sent to his employees, CEO of the U.S. bank Morgan Stanley, John Mack, said it will waive for the third consecutive year to its traditional premium end of the year. "At Morgan Stanley, we are aware of the context in which we operate and the economic difficulties faced by both countries. (…) I recommended to our remuneration committee last week not to grant me the premium end of the year. According to news channel CNBC, the management of Morgan Stanley's CEO wanted to receive this award.

John Mack will leave his post as CEO at the end of the year to become non-executive chairman of the board of directors. It's James Gorman to take over at the head of the U.S. bank.

Banks are currently in the sights of government and the American public, particularly incensed by the level of compensation of bankers, while the unemployment rate reached 10% in the country. In view of appeasement, many large institutions have decided to make efforts to pay. As such, the CEO of Citigroup, Vikram Pandit, will not touch a dollar of earnings this year and many executives of Goldman Sachs, another behemoth of American finance, agreed not to receive bonuses cash. Finally, Kenneth Lewis, boss of Bank of America at the outset, it has been pushed by the U.S. Treasury to waive any remuneration for his duties in 2009.

As expected, the government has again decided against increasing the minimum wage above the statutory minimum. According to the opinion of November 30 last by the group of experts chaired by Paul Champsaur, the minimum wage increase will be limited, given the low inflation observed on Tuesday by INSEE at a rate of 0 , 5%, raising the hourly minimum wage to € 8.86 gross instead of 8.82 or 1343.77 euros gross per month for full time.

Under the reform of the minimum wage passed in late 2008, the adjustment of the minimum wage will apply from 1 January rather than July 1, so as to precede the wage negotiations and corporate sector, which may well occur knowingly.This adjustment should cover some 1.6 million people according to a recent study by the Department of Labor, more than 10% of private sector employees.

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LE FIGARO. – Do you regret this management letter, which prompted a strong reaction from drivers? Gilbert Rovetto. – This letter I have not written, but I assume and I understand she has shocked the form. It's a letter designed to remind drivers safety procedures they must follow, but it has nothing to do with the crash of the AF 447. After a tragedy like the one we experienced last June, everyone is in a weird state. For us, the fact that the black boxes have not been found and that we do not know what happened is also very difficult to live. The company has a hard time to grieve and such exchanges are healthy internally.

Unions criticize you a standstill since the occurrence of AF 447. It is true that we did nothing. We organized meetings simulator for our pilots.We have also established a mission on external security. But its work will take time. Before things can escalate this weekend, I thought to union officials propose creating a commission to monitor the external mission. We must meet November 4 to discuss these topics. My concern is out of the debate to get back to work.

Should we worry about recent reports of incidents? No. Since March 31, I am accountable manager for safety. I guarantee that Air France does not save the expense of safety, which is our daily priority. When mistakes are made, they are taken into account. An instructor pilot opened the throttle a little low and has been relieved of his duties as instructor. People have no right to say that there are no remarks or sanctions at Air France.They exist, as in all airlines. I sincerely hope that the debate can be conducted internally in serenity.

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