Iskandar Safa

Iskandar Safa
Born(1955-04-03)3 April 1955
Beirut, Lebanon
Died29 January 2024(2024-01-29) (aged 68)
Mougins, Alpes-Maritimes, France
EducationAmerican University of Beirut
INSEAD
OccupationBusinessman

Iskandar Safa (Arabic: إسكندر صفا; 3 April 1955 – 29 January 2024) was a successful French businessman and philanthropist of Lebanese origin.[1] Together with his brother Akram Safa, he was the owner of Privinvest Holding, a major international naval construction group.[2] In addition to this, Iskandar Safa and his brother Akram controlled, through P.I. Dev SAL, the French company FIMAS SA specialised in developing and managing real estate properties in the South of France. Iskandar is being sued in London by the Republic of Mozambique in an alleged corruption scandal following his win in similar case (all charges dismissed) in New York in 2019 ..[3] Safa also owned Valmonde which publishes the weekly Valeurs Actuelles, a conservative right-wing publication .[4] In the late 1970s, Safa enrolled in the American University of Beirut, graduating with a degree in civil engineering. He left Lebanon to become a junior civil engineer in the United States, and then moved to France, where in 1982 he graduated with an MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau.[2]

  1. ^ "Making the Shipping News". Handelsblatt. 4 August 2015. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 9 December 2015.
  2. ^ a b "Company Overview of Privinvest Holding sal". Bloomberg.
  3. ^ name="bloom2bil">"Making the Shipping News". Handelsblatt. 4 August 2015. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
  4. ^ "Iskandar Safa, a portfolio ranging from naval vessels to far-right media outlets - ENCO".