Maurice K. Zilkha (1918-1964) was an Iraqi banker.
He was managing director of Banque Zilkha in Egypt until the family's Egyptian assets were confiscated in 1956 by Gamel Abdel Nasser's government.
[1] In 1956, Zilkha left from Egypt and became an Italian citizen.
He died in 1964 at the Carlyle Hotel in New York City after a short illness.
[1] He was survived by his wife Helene Paraskeviadias Zilkha, their daughter Doris of Paris, France and Mont-sur-Rolle, Switzerland; their son, Philippe; as well as his three brothers and two sisters, Mrs. Helen Simon and Mrs. Hanina Shasha (wife of Alfred Aboud Shasha), both of New York.