Jean-Louis Gergorin

Jean-Louis Gergorin is a former French diplomat and former executive vice president of EADS – the giant European aerospace company that controls Airbus. He is also the whistleblower of the Clearstream Affair; a money laundering scandal that has garnered international attention and disturbed the French political scene.

Gergorin was educated at two top French schools, the École Polytechnique and École Nationale d'Administration. Gergorin was also a research fellow at the RAND Corporation and the John F. Kennedy School of Government and is a graduate of the Executive Education Program at Stanford Business School.

In 1973, Gergorin was cofounder and deputy head of the Policy Planning Staff of the French Foreign Ministry. From 1979 to 1984 he was Director of Policy Planning, reporting directly to the French Foreign Minister.

In November 1984 he joined the aerospace group Matra as Senior Vice President for Strategy,^[1] starting a close association with CEO Jean-Luc Lagardère that lasted until Lagardère’s sudden death in March 2003. Between 1998 and 2000, together with Lagardère and Co-CEO, Philippe Camus, Gergorin played a major role in the series of national and transnational mergers that triggered the formation of EADS – the world’s second largest aerospace company.

During his time at EADS, Gergorin served as Executive Vice President for Strategy,^[2] member of the Executive Committee, and as a member of the Shareholder’s Committee (Board of Directors) for its Airbus subsidiary. In this final capacity, Gergorin was particularly active in the expansion of EADS in the U.S. and U.K. markets.

In May 2006, Gergorin admitted that he had anonymously sent a list of various political figures and businesspersons who were allegedly involved in a large money laundering scheme to the French Investigative Magistrate, Renaud Van Ruymbeke, in 2004. Gergorin has stated publicly that he and Magistrate Van Ruymbeke met and agreed on this course of action for security concerns.^[3] Magistrate Van Ruymbeke has confirmed this assertion.

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