Henri Giscard D'Estaing
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Henri Marie Edmond Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (born 17 October 1956) is a French businessman and son of former French President
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing Valéry René Marie Georges Giscard d'Estaing (, ; ; 2 February 19262 December 2020), also known as simply Giscard or VGE, was a French politician who served as President of France from 1974 to 1981. After serving as Ministry of the Economy ...
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Biography

Giscard d'Estaing studied at the
Paris Institute of Political Studies Sciences Po () or Sciences Po Paris, also known as the Paris Institute of Political Studies (), is a public research university located in Paris, France, that holds the status of ''grande école'' and the legal status of . The university's unde ...
and has a masters in economics. He began his career with Cofremca where he served as associate director from 1982 to 1987, helping research changes in patterns of food consumption and its impacts on marketing and strategy. In 1987 he joined the Danone Group and held various executive positions with subsidiaries such as HP Foods and Evian-Badoit. Giscard d’Estaing joined the resort company
Club Med Club Med SAS, commonly known as Club Med and previously known as Club Méditerranée SA, is a French travel and tourism operator headquartered in Paris, specializing in all-inclusive holidays. Founded in 1950, the company has been primarily ow ...
in 1997 as chief operating officer in charge of finance, development and international relations. He became chief executive officer in 2001 and chairman in 2002. Since 2004, he has rebranded the company as upscale, but with an all-inclusive price, closing the least profitable resorts to reinvest capital back into the most profitable. After the takeover of Club Med by
Fosun International Fosun International Limited is a Chinese multinational conglomerate holding company. Founded in 1992 by Guo Guangchang and four others, the company is headquartered in Shanghai and was incorporated in Hong Kong in 2004. Its Co-CEOs are Chen ...
, he was named president of Club Med SAS.


Personal life

He is married to jonkvrouw Wilhelmine Jeanne Mathilde Elisabeth Sickinghe (born 1956) on June 30, 1984 in Naarden, Netherlands. The couple have three children: one son, Frédéric, and two daughters, Sophie and May.


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1956 births Living people French businesspeople Sciences Po alumni Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas University alumni Saint-Jean de Passy alumni Children of presidents of France French untitled nobility Businesspeople from Paris {{France-business-bio-stub