Roger Cukierman

Roger Cukierman was born in 1936 in 19th arrondissement of Paris

Roger Cukierman was born on 23 August 1936 in Paris. He earned a bachelor's degree in law and a doctorate in economics from ESCP, a business school in Paris. His son is the businessman Edouard Cukierman, and his grandson is the Israeli tennis player Daniel Cukierman.

From 1963 to 1999 he worked at the Edmond de Rothschild Group, and he headed it in France from 1993 to 1999. He chaired Israel General Bank from 1988 and the Israel 2000 mutual fund. He sat on the boards of Club Med, Bolloré, Château Margaux and Publicis.

In 1993 he and his son founded the investment house Cukierman & Co., which works in France and mainly in Israel. In 2005 the firm put together a group of investors to bid for Bank Leumi. He has written 2 books.

He led CRIF from 2001 to 2007 and again from 2013 to 2016. In 2002 his remarks on Jean-Marie Le Pen in an interview caused controversy, and he later said they had been distorted. He also served as vice president of the European Jewish Congress and the Alliance Israélite Universelle.