Gérard Pélisson (9 February 1932 – 6 March 2023) was a French hotelier and businessman who was the co-founder of the Accor Group, and president of the Institut Paul Bocuse.
[1] Pelisson obtained his engineering diploma from the École Centrale Paris in 1955 and was a graduate of MIT in Boston.
[4] On 27 January 2011, he delivered a press conference concerning the reasons the Accor Group left Tunisia 3 years before.
In his words, he mentioned "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.
Le Bonheur d'entreprendre, de Novotel à Accor (Undertaken Happiness): a great human adventure, Jean-Philippe Bozek, 2010 ed.