Jacques Servier

Jacques Servier (9 February 1922 – 16 April 2014) was a French doctor and businessman. He was the founder and president of Laboratoires Servier, a pharmaceutical company.

Biography

Founder of the pharmaceutical group Servier in 1954, he had a fortune estimated at US$7.7 billion.

The group led by him, Servier, had been convicted several times to pay damages for Mediator, trade name of benfluorex. There was a class action also for Isoméride, trade name of dexfenfluramine. There are also active discussions and trial around benfluorex.

Decorations

• Legion of Honour
  • Knight (1976)
  • Officer (1 December 1987; by Minister of Social Affairs and Employment Philippe Séguin)
  • Commander (31 December 1992; by Minister for Foreign Trade Dominique Strauss-Kahn)
  • Grand Officer (25 March 2002; by President Jacques Chirac)
  • Grand Cross (31 December 2008; by President Nicolas Sarkozy)
• National Order of Merit
  • Officer (1981)
  • Commander (21 May 1985; by President François Mitterrand)
• Ordre des Palmes Académiques
  • Knight (1980)
  • Officer (1996)