Olivier Dassault
Olivier Dassault is a French politician and billionaire, and a deputy in the French National Assembly.Biography
He is the son of Nicole and Serge Dassault; and the grandson of Marcel Dassault.
Dassault graduated from École de l'air as an combat engineering officer/pilot and served in the reserves of the French Air Force.
He was elected 16 June 2002 as deputy for the first circonscription of Oise, running on the Union for a Popular Movement ticket. He was re-elected in 2007.
A child of the founding family of the Dassault Group, he has taken and continues to work in a number of roles within the family firm. He is president of Dassault Communications, president of the board of directors of French publisher Valmonde, member of the board of the French financial newspaper Journal des Finances and an administrator of Dassault subsidiary Socpresse.
As of July 2019, he has a net worth of $6 billion.
He is a 1974 graduate of the École de l'Air Air Force academy and has a master's degree in mathematics as well a doctorate in business management computing. He is also passionate for photography and has published several books of his photos. Dassault is also a composer and musician and contributed scores for several movies in the late 70s and early 80s.
Having qualified as a professional IFR pilot in 1975, he has set a number of world speed records:
