Jacques Aigrain
 Jacques Aigrain    (businessman, banker) | |
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| Born | 15 August 1954 |
| Nationality | Swiss, French |
| Alma mater | Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Paris Dauphine University |
| Member of | Geneva Association |
Jacques Aigrain, a dual Swiss and French national, is an economist and former CEO of the reinsurance company Swiss Re. He is married and has two children.
Education and Career
He studied economics at the Panthéon-Sorbonne University and economics and architecture at the Paris-Dauphine University in France. In 1981, he obtained a doctorate in economics from the Sorbonne. In the same year, he joined JP Morgan where he was appointed head of the health and chemistry department in London in 1991, then president of the French subsidiary JPMorgan and Cie SA in 1996, co-responsible for mergers and acquisitions then finally working for JPMorgan in New York from 1998.
In 2001, he became head of the Financial Services Business Group and member of the management committee of Swiss Re, before being appointed vice-chairman of the general management in 2004, then CEO in 2006.
In 2009 he left Swiss Re and became president of LCH Clearnet a British/French clearing house group that "operates some of the largest and most-sophisticated clearing services operating in financial markets today."[1]
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/2006 | 8 June 2006 | 11 June 2006 | Canada Ottawa | 54th Bilderberg, held in Canada. 133 guests |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2004 | 21 January 2004 | 25 January 2004 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | 2068 billionaires, CEOs and their politicians and "civil society" leaders met under the slogan Partnering for Prosperity and Security. "We have the people who matter," said World Economic Forum Co-Chief Executive Officer José María Figueres. |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2006 | 25 January 2006 | 29 January 2006 | Switzerland | Both former US president Bill Clinton and Bill Gates pushed for public-private partnerships. Only a few of the over 2000 participants are known. |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2007 | 24 January 2007 | 28 January 2007 | Switzerland | Only the 449 public figures listed of ~2200 participants |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2009 | 23 January 2009 | 27 January 2009 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | Chairman Klaus Schwab outlined five objectives driving the Forum’s efforts to shape the global agenda, including letting the banks that caused the 2008 economic crisis keep writing the rules, the climate change agenda, over-national government structures, taking control over businesses with the stakeholder agenda, and a "new charter for the global economic order". |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2019 | 22 January 2019 | 25 January 2019 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | "The reality is that we are in a Cold War [against China] that threatens to turn into a hot one." |
