Édouard Cukierman (born 1965) is a

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Biography

Early life

Edouard Cukierman was born on 13 March 1965 in

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. His father is

Roger Cukierman Roger Cukierman (born 23 August 1936) is a French banker, businessman and Jewish philanthropist. He serves as the President of the Conseil Représentatif des Institutions juives de France (CRIF) and Vice President of the World Jewish Congress. Bio ...

, ninth president of the

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(CRIF), and Vice President of the

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. He settled in Israel in 1984. He served his military service at Tsahal as Réservé Officer. He graduated from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, where he received a B.Sc., and received a Master's in Business Administration from

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Business career

He is the founder of Catalyst Funds and chairman of Cukierman & Co Investment House. Additionally, he is the founder of the annual Go4Europe conference and the Go4Israel event, gathering once top Chinese leaders from the business community looking to discover Israel.

Personal life

Edouard is a father of three boys, Ariel, Michael and Israeli tennis player

Daniel Cukierman Daniel Cukierman ( he, דניאל צוקרמן; born 9 July 1995) is an Israeli tennis player. During his junior year at the University of Southern California from November 13, 2019, until the close of competition in 2020, Cukierman was ranked N ...

. and an uncle for Amos, Avishai, Jessica, Jonathan, Raphael and Jeremie.

Bibliography

Edouard Cukierman together with Dr. Daniel Rouach co-authored the book "Israel Valley Le bouclier technologique de l’innovation" published in June 2013 by Edition Pearson in Paris, translated into Chinese in November 2014, and in Italian in June 2016.

References

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