{{Short description|French billionaire businessman}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} {{Use British English|date=September 2019}} {{infobox person | name = Laurent Dassault | image = BMW Polo Masters Megève 2014 - Laurent Dassault.jpg | caption = Dassault in 2014 | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1953|07|07|df=yes}} | birth_place = Neuilly-sur-Seine, France | alma_mater = ESLSCA<br>Panthéon-Assas University | occupation = Businessman | spouse = Martine Dassault | children = 2 | parents = Serge Dassault | relatives = Olivier Dassault (brother)<br> Thierry Dassault (brother) }}
'''Laurent Dassault''' ({{IPA|fr|lɔʁɑ̃ daso}}) is a French billionaire businessman, and the co-managing director of Dassault Group, a French corporate group founded by his grandfather, Marcel Dassault.<ref name="Forbes profile">{{cite web |title=Forbes profile: Laurent Dassault |url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/laurent-dassault/ |access-date=12 October 2021 |website=Forbes}}</ref> Dassault Group, notably, has business interests in the aerospace and software industries.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Laurent Dassault |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/profiles/laurent-dassault/ |access-date=30 June 2025 |website=Bloomberg}}</ref> As of June 2025, his estimated net worth was US$10.7 billion.<ref name=":0" />
== Early life == Laurent Dassault was born on 7 July 1953 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, to father Serge Dassault.<ref name=":0" /> His father, Serge, was a businessman and politician, who also headed the Dassault Group, and his mother was Nicole.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Keohane |first=David |date=1 June 2018 |title=Serge Dassault, billionaire industrialist, 1925-2018 |url=https://www.ft.com/content/0d13f02c-6410-11e8-90c2-9563a0613e56 |access-date=1 July 2025 |work=Financial Times}}</ref> Dassault's grandfather, Marcel Dassault, founded the Dassault Group.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Patel |first=Tara |date=9 January 2023 |title=Fractious Dassault Billionaires Go Into Overtime to Find New Leader |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-09/fractious-dassault-billionaires-go-into-overtime-to-find-new-leader |access-date=1 July 2025 |website=Bloomberg}}</ref> His siblings are Olivier, Thierry and Marie-Helene.<ref name=":2" /> Dassault was educated at Ecole Superieure Libre Des Science Commerciales Appliquees and Paris-Pantheon-Assas University.<ref name=":0" />
== Career == Early in his career, Dassault was involved in the banking industry, and in 1991, he joined his family's business group.<ref name=":3">{{Cite news |last=Lankarani |first=Nazanin |date=25 September 2009 |title=A Dassault Who Thinks Beyond the Blue Horizon |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/26/business/global/26dassault.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180126222642/https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/26/business/global/26dassault.html |archive-date=26 January 2018 |access-date=1 July 2025 |work=The New York Times |language= |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Dassault's responsibilities in his family business group is to diversify the group's business interests for his family's future generations.<ref name=":3" /> Dassault has had leadership roles in Artcurial, an auction house owned by his family, as well as at Château Dassault and Château La Fleur Merissac, wine estates owned by the Dassault Group, in Saint-Émilion, Bordeaux, and vinyards in Argentina and Chile.<ref name=":3" /> In 2008, he was made an officer of the Order of Arts and Letters.<ref name=":3" />
== Personal life == Dassault lives in Paris, France.<ref name="Forbes profile" /> He was married to Martine Dassault, who is deceased.<ref>{{Cite news |date=18 August 2024 |title=The Dassault family, a succession of ill feelings |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/en/summer-reads/article/2024/08/18/the-dassault-family-a-succession-of-ill-feelings_6717957_183.html |access-date=1 July 2025 |work=Le Monde }}</ref> Dassault has two sons, Julien and Adrien. In 2025, both of his sons replaced him on the supervisory board of Groupe Industriel Marcel Dassault SAS, the Dassault family's holding company.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Patel |first=Tara |date=23 June 2025 |title=Billionaire Dassault Heir Makes Way on Board for Next Generation |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-23/billionaire-dassault-heir-makes-way-on-board-for-next-generation?sref=87aWS1gD |access-date=1 July 2025 |website=Bloomberg}}</ref>
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