Jean-Paul Chifflet | |
Birth Date: | 3 September 1949 |
Birth Place: | Tournon-sur-Rhône, France |
Death Place: | Saint-Jean-de-Muzols, France |
Nationality: | French |
Occupation: | Banker |
Known For: | CEO of French: [[Crédit Agricole]]|italic=no |
Children: | 2 |
Awards: | Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur National Order of Merit (France) Order of Agricultural Merit |
Jean-Paul Chifflet (3 September 1949 – 25 May 2017) was a French banker.[1] [2] He served as the chief executive officer of French: [[Crédit Agricole]]|italic=no.[1] [3]
Jean-Paul Chifflet was born in 1949 in Tournon-sur-Rhône, Ardèche, France.[2] [3] He grew up on a farm.[2] He failed his Baccalauréat twice and passed it the third time.[2] He graduated from the Institut des Hautes Finances de Paris.[1] He played rugby union for FC Tournon-Tain.[2]
In 1973, at the age of twenty-four, he joined Crédit Agricole.[2] On 1 March 2010 he became its CEO, replacing Georges Pauget.[1] [2] As a result, he also became Chairman of Amundi and Pacifica.[1]
Chifflet died on 25 May 2017 when he fell from his self-propelled tractor while mowing his lawn.[4] [5]