Patrick Kron (born 26 September 1953) was the chairman and chief executive (Président-directeur général) of the French engineering conglomerate Alstom.

Kron is the son of Polish-Jewish[1] immigrants who survived the Nazi concentration camps and detention at the end of the 1940s, when they moved to France.

[3] While under Kron’s leadership, Alstom was investigated by the United States Department of Justice and ultimately agreed to pay a $772 million fine.

Some mid-level Alstom executives were arrested in the United States, and then either enrolled as FBI informants in the company, or jailed as part of that investigation, such as Frédéric Pierucci.

[5] The affair is frequently presented in France as an example of hostage diplomacy and economic warfare by the United States government to favor large companies in commercial transactions.