Jacques Servier
# Jacques Servier

Jacques Servier (9 February 1922 – 16 April 2014) was a French doctor and businessman. He was the founder and president of Laboratoires Servier, a pharmaceutical company.

## Biography

Founder of the pharmaceutical group Servier in 1954, he had a fortune estimated at US$7.7 billion.

The group led by him, Servier, had been convicted several times to pay damages for Mediator, trade name of benfluorex. There was a class action also for Isoméride, trade name of dexfenfluramine. There are also active discussions and trial around benfluorex.

## Decorations

* Legion of Honour
   * Knight (1976)
   * Officer (1 December 1987; by Minister of Social Affairs and Employment Philippe Séguin)
   * Commander (31 December 1992; by Minister for Foreign Trade Dominique Strauss-Kahn)
   * Grand Officer (25 March 2002; by President Jacques Chirac)
   * Grand Cross (31 December 2008; by President Nicolas Sarkozy)
* National Order of Merit
   * Officer (1981)
   * Commander (21 May 1985; by President François Mitterrand)
* Ordre des Palmes Académiques
   * Knight (1980)
   * Officer (1996)
