Name: Francois Steiner
Born: Paris, 1962
Career: Civil servant; consultant for Arthur Andersen; senior consultant for Boston Consulting Group; deputy managing director of Saresco; now president of Louis Vuitton Europe.
Education: Polytechnique; ENSAE; studied international finance at Universite Paris Dauphine.
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Why he is in the news: He has just opened Ireland's first Louis Vuitton shop, inside Dublin's Brown Thomas store.
