Gérard Pelisson

Gérard Pélisson
Born	February 9, 1932 Lyon, France
Residence	France
Nationality	France
Alma mater	École Centrale Paris, MIT
Occupation	founder of Accor, president of the Institute Paul Bocuse

Gérard Pélisson (born 9 February 1932) is the founder of the Accor Group and the current President of the Institute Paul Bocuse.^[1]

Biography

He obtained his engineering diploma from the École Centrale Paris in 1955 and is a graduate of MIT.^[2]

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.^[3]

He has been the President of the Union des Français de l'Etranger since 1997.^[4]

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".^[5]

Gilles Pélisson is his nephew.

Bibliography

Le Bonheur d'entreprendre, de Novotel à Accor (Undertaken Happiness): a great human adventure, Jean-Philippe Bozek, 2010 ed. (history of Gérard Pélisson and Accor Group written in the form of a fictionalized biography).^[6]

References

1. "Accor Founders Gerard Pelisson and Paul Dubrule, Who Opened their First Hotel in 1963, Seek More Zing As Competition Intensifies". Hotel Online. August 14, 2005.
2. "Annual Financial Report". Accor. 2012.
3. "Paul Dubrule et Gérard Pélisson créent un géant mondial de l'hôtellerie". Journal du Net (in French).
4. "Gérard Pélisson". L'echo touristique (in French).
5. "Tunisia: Forceful Comeback of Accor in Nation - Gerard Pelisson". AfricanSeer. December 18, 2012.
6. "Gérard Pélisson a partagé à SKEMA " le bonheur d’entreprendre "". Skema (in French).