Olivier Dassault is a French

France

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 politician, currently serving as a deputy in the French National Assembly

French National Assembly

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. He is also the son of Serge Dassault

Serge Dassault

Serge Dassault is a French entrepreneur and conservative politician. According to Forbes magazine, he was the 96th richest person in the world, with a net worth of $9.3 billion....

 and grandchild of Marcel Dassault

Marcel Dassault

Marcel Dassault, born Marcel Bloch was a French aircraft industrialist.-Biography:Dassault was born in Paris. After graduating from the lycée Condorcet, Breguet School and Supaero, he invented a type of aircraft propeller used by the French army during World War I and founded the Société des...

. He was elected 16 June 2002 as deputy for the first circonscription of Oise

Oise

Oise is a department in the north of France. It is named after the river Oise.-History:Oise is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790...

, running on the Union for a Popular Movement

Union for a Popular Movement

The Union for a Popular Movement is a centre-right political party in France, and one of the two major contemporary political parties in the country along with the center-left Socialist Party...

 (UMP) ticket. He was re-elected in 2007.

A child of the founding family of the Dassault Group

Dassault Group

Dassault Group, is a French group of companies led by Serge Dassault.Managing directors are Claude Dassault and Olivier Costa De Beauregard.- Subsidiaries :*Dassault Aviation;...

, he has taken and continues to work in a number of roles within the family firm. He is president of Dassault Communications, president of the board of directors

Board of directors

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 of French publisher Valmonde, member of the board of the French financial newspaper Journal des Finances and an administrator of Dassault subsidiary Socpresse

Socpresse

Socpresse was a French corporation which controlled the conservative daily newspaper Le Figaro, the weekly magazine L'Express, 40% of the weekly Le Journal du Dimanche, Valeurs Actuelles, and the football club FC Nantes. The company was acquired by the Dassault in September 2006...

.

He is a 1974 graduate of the l'École de l'Air

Salon-de-Provence Air Base

Salon-de-Provence Air Base is a base of the French Air Force located south Salon-de-Provence in southern France.It hosts the training facilities for the officers of the air force:* École de l'Air: for young students** pilot commissioned officers...

 Air Force academy and has a master's degree in mathematics as well a doctorate in business computer systems. He is also passionate for photography

Photography

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 and has published several books of his photos. Dassault is also a composer and musician and contributed several scores for well known French movies.

Having qualified as professional IFR pilot in 1975, he has set a number of world speed records:http://records.fai.org/general_aviation/

1977: New York to Paris in a Dassault Falcon 50

Dassault Falcon 50

|-See also:-References:* Taylor, John W R. . Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1988-89. Coulsdon, Surrey, UK:Jane's Information Group. ISBN 0-7106-0867-5.-External links:* *...

1987: New Orleans to Paris in a Dassault Falcon 900 (both jointly with Hervé Le Prince-Ringuet)

1996: Paris to Abu Dhabi in a Falcon 900 EX

1996: Paris to Abu Dhabi in a Falcon 900 EX (both jointly with Guy Mitaux-Maurouard and Patrick Experton)