[4] He attended secondary school at the Lycée technique d'Abidjan and obtained a baccalauréat in social economics.

He was admitted to the Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny and the Institut français des relations internationales, where he earned a degree in international commerce in 1979.

In 1982, he moved to Switzerland and studied development of commercial relations at the International Center Cointrin.

On 27 June 1994, he became a founding member of the Rally of the Republicans and was its acting secretary-general from July 2011 to September 2017.

[5] He also served as president of the board of directors of the Rally of Houphouëtists for Democracy and Peace (RHDP) from February 2015 to September 2017.