Former UAE representative appointed CEO for Dassault Aviation

The man who sold the Mirage jets to the UAE in the 1990s and then was vice president for Dassault for the Middle East and North Africa at the start of this century is stepping up to the top job.
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Eric Trappier, 52, has been appointed the new chairman and chief executive of Dassault Aviation.

He succeeds Charles Edelstonne who has reached the statutory retirement age but who will remain a director of the company that manufactures both the Rafale fighter plane and the Falcon business jets.
Trappier is on the board of Thales and is also president of the defence committee at ASD - the European aerospace defence and security association, and chairman of the defence group at GIFAS, the French industry association

 

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