Jean-Pierre Garnier (born 31 October 1947) is a French businessman, and a former chief executive of GlaxoSmithKline.
[1] He was born in Le Mans in the Pays de la Loire region of western France.
He attended Lycée Kléber in Strasbourg.
He did a PhD at the Louis Pasteur University in Strasbourg.
In December 2000 he was appointed chief executive of GSK, during his tenure there were a number of controversies, after his retirement in 2008 GSK pleaded guilty to criminal charges[2]