Jean Riboud (15 November 1919 – 20 October 1985) was a French socialist, corporate executive, and the chairman of Schlumberger,[1] the largest oilfield services company in the world.
[2] He was a member of the French Resistance during World War II and suffered incarceration in Buchenwald concentration camp of the Nazis.
[4] If you want to innovate, to change an enterprise or a society, it takes people willing to do what's not expected Riboud, born on 15 November 1919 in the French city of Lyons to a banker, graduated from the École des Sciences Politiques, Paris in 1939.
It was during this period he was captured by the Nazis and was sent to Buchenwald concentration camp where spent two years, suffering from tuberculosis,[7] before escaping from there with help from the communists.
[8] It is reported that the Riboud couple had an extensive friendship circle, which included political figures like François Mitterrand, Indira Gandhi and Ne Win and art personalities such as Yves Tanguy, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Isamu Noguchi, M. F. Hussain, Joan Miró and Max Ernst.