Gérard Pelisson
Gérard Pélisson is a French hotelier, entrepreneur, founder of the Accor Group and the current President of the Institut Paul Bocuse.Biography
He obtained his engineering diploma from the École Centrale Paris in 1955 and is a graduate of MIT.
In September 2008, he wrote, together with Paul Dubrule, the history of the adventure of Accor Group published in the Harmony of the Accor Group by Transversales Éditions. As one of the supporters of Charles Millon, he was a patron of the International School of Business and Development 3A in 1993.
He has been the President of the Union des Français de l'Etranger since 1997.
On January 27, 2011, he delivered a press conference concerning the reasons why the Accor Group left Tunisia 3 years prior: "In Tunisia, we were forced, for example, to buy for 7 million euros a run-down hotel that was completely worthless, in order to allow the bank to list that sum as an asset. This is no longer possible".
Gilles Pélisson is his nephew.
