Éric Trappier, born on 6 January 1960, is a French engineer and businessman who has been chief executive officer of the aircraft maker Dassault Aviation since January 2013 and, since 2025, chairman of Groupe Industriel Marcel Dassault, the Dassault family's holding company. A Paris native with an engineering degree from Telecom SudParis in 1983, he joined Dassault Aviation in 1984, spent most of his career in the defence sector, became international sales manager in 2002 and international general manager in 2006, and replaced Charles Edelstenne as chief executive when Edelstenne reached the mandatory retirement age of 75. He has also headed the French aerospace industries association GIFAS and the European aerospace and defence association ASD, and he has been a public voice on the Future Combat Air System fighter project and on business jet policy.
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