Bédié, Henri Konan

LC control no.	n 94002058
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Bédié, Henri Konan *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Konan Bédié, Henri Bédié, Aimé Henri Konan
Associated country	Côte d'Ivoire France
Associated place	Washington (D.C.)
Birth date	1934-05-05
Death date	2023-08-01
Place of birth	Dadiékro (Côte d'Ivoire)
Place of death	Abidjan (Côte d'Ivoire)
Field of activity	Côte d'Ivoire--Politics and government
Affiliation	Université de Poitiers France. Ambassade (U.S.) World Bank Côte d'Ivoire. Présidence de la République Parti démocratique de Côte d'Ivoire
Profession or occupation	Politicians Presidents
Found in	Discourse et allocations de monsieur le président Henri Konan Bédié, 1991: t.p. ([pres. of Assemblée nat. of Côte d'Ivoire]) Paroles, 1995: p. 359 (Henri Konan BÉDIÉ, b. May 5, 1934) Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition, accessed April 6, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Bédié, Henri-Konan; president; born 05 May 1934 in Dadekro, Côte d'Ivoire; member of the Baule ethnic group, which has dominated the nation's politics and cocoa interests since independence; attended schools in Côte d'Ivoire and France before completing a doctoral degree in economics from the University of Poitiers in France; entered the Côte d'Ivoire civil service in 1960 during the Côte d'Ivoire's final months as a French colony, serving as diplomatic counselor at the French Embassy in the United States; from 1961 to 1966 was Côte d'Ivoire's first ambassador to the United States; in January 1966 accepted appointment as minister delegate for financial affairs and minister of economy and finance while at the same time acting as a governor of the International Monetary Fund and administrator for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank); in June 1977 became special adviser for African affairs to the president of the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank in Washington, D.C.; returned home in December 1980; was a member of the Democratic Party of Côte d'Ivoire; was elected president of the new National Assembly; having been reelected assembly president in 1986, he became acting president of Côte d'Ivoire in 1993; in October 1995 won election to a five-year term as president; in December 1999 he was overthrown in Côte d'Ivoire's first successful military coup since independence; fled to Togo and then to Paris, where he attempted to rebuild his political career from afar; returned to Côte d'Ivoire in 2001 and vowed to run for president in the elections presumptively scheduled for sometime in early 2009) Aimé Henri Konan Bédié : Le Phénix, 2016. Washington post WWW site, viewed August 3, 2023 (in obituary dated August 2, 2023: Henri Konan Bédié, a former president of Ivory Coast who led the West African nation for six years before being deposed in a military coup in 1999, died Aug. 1 in Abidjan, the country's largest city. He was 89. Henri Konan Bédié was born in the village of Dadiékro, near Daoukro, on May 5, 1934) Oxford African American studies center, via WWW, viewed August 3, 2023 (Bédié, Henri-Konan (1934- ); born in Dadiékro, in central Côte d'Ivoire)
Associated language	fre