Loïk Le Floch-Prigent

1943 -

country of citizenship: France

languages spoken, written or signed: French

educated at: Grenoble Institute of Technology, École nationale supérieure de l'énergie, l'eau et l'environnement, University of Missouri

occupation: engineer, businessperson

position held: President of the SNCF, president, private secretary, chief executive officer, president

Loik Le Floch-Prigent (born 21 September 1943 in Brest) is a French engineer and manager. He was CEO of Elf Aquitaine between July 1989 and 1993, then president of SNCF from December 1995 to July 1996, when he was indicted in connection with the Elf affair . He is the nephew of the poet Maodez Glanndour. He was charged in September 2012 with being an accessory to fraud whilst in Togo after a complaint from an Emirati businessman, was filed claiming that he had been manipulated out of $48 million. He was extradited to Ivory Coast and appeared before a judge where he was questioned for three hours in Lomé. Source: Wikipedia (en)