Edouard Stern

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Édouard Stern (October 18, 1954 - March 1, 2005) was a French banker. Born in Paris, he was son of the banker Antoine Jean Elie Stern and Christiane Laroche.

Edouard Stern, the "Mozart of finance", was one of France's richest men. His fortune placed him at 38th in a list of France's richest citizens. He was born in 1954 to one of France’s wealthiest families, the owners of Banque Stern, a private investment house. He studied at the Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales in Paris. He was a highly intelligent and combative man.

He lived separately from his wife, Béatrice David-Weil, who lived in New York with their three children, Mathilde, Louis and Henri.

Edouard Stern was found dead on March 1, 2005 in Geneve, Switzerland. He was killed with four shots from a handgun. He was buried near Geneva, (Switzerland) in the village of Veyrier in the Jewish cemetery there on March 10, 2005.

Edouard Stern anonymously supported projects related to childhood, humanitarian and environmental organizations, programs against hunger and NGOs for human rights. Stern brought financial means for the installation of programs of development and the reinforcement of the humanitarian action, missions of development aid and humanitarianism in the world and in particular to Africa.