Gérard Eskénazi
 Gérard Eskénazi     ( financier) | |
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| Born | 10 November 1931 Paris, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Ethnicity | Jewish |
| Alma mater | HEC Paris |
Gérard André Eskénazi is a French-Jewish banker. He attended the 1988 Bilderberg meeting.[1]
Activities
In the 1980s, Eskenazi and the publicity-shy Belgian baron Albert Frère took a stake of just over 25 per cent in the 'scandal-ridden Wall Street junk-bond group" Drexel Burnham Lambert.[2]
Gerard Eskenazi played a controversial role in shielding assets of the bank of which he was chief operating officer, Paribas, from the nationalising zeal of Francois Mitterrand's Socialists after their 1981 election triumph. He had to leave Paribas after the ensuing furore but did his bit for France by founding, in the late 1980s, the holding company Comipar, which took strategic stakes in French industry as protection against foreign takeovers. In 1998 Comipar was declared insolvent, having diversified into property speculation and finance.[2]
