Pierre Besnainou

Pierre Besnainou (* 1955 in Tunis ) is a French entrepreneur . From 2005 to 2007 he was President of the European Jewish Congress .

Life

Besnainou was born into a middle-class Jewish family in the French protectorate of Tunisia . In 1972 he moved to Paris . He worked in import and export and was head of Groupe Kaisui from 1981 to 1995 . From 1998 to 2001 he was founding president of the listed IT company LibertySurf .

He founded the Jewish emigration organization AMI . In 2006 he took over the management of the charity Fonds social juif unifié (FSJU). From 2005 to 2007 he was President of the European Jewish Congress (EJC). In 2010 he became chairman of the Fondation du judaïsme français . He is a member of the Board of Governors of the Peres Center for Peace , the Weizmann Institute for Science and the Jewish Agency for Israel . He also heads a working group against anti-Semitism with a colleague for the Jewish Agency for Israel . He is also a member of the Unified Jewish Social Fund and the Franco-Israeli Chamber of Commerce.

He is married and has three children.

Awards

• 2007: Knight's Cross of the Legion of Honor

Individual evidence

1. ^ Mr. Pierre Besnainou (KH) , Jewish Agency for Israel, accessed December 16, 2013.
2. ↑ Mr. Pierre Besnainou, France ( Memento of the original dated December 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , The Israeli Presidential Conference , accessed December 16, 2013. 
3. ↑ Pierre Besnainou, to “atypical” Jewish leader ( Memento of the original of April 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , EJP, June 20, 2007.