Iskandar Safa

Iskandar Safa (Arabic: إسكندر صفا; 3 April 1955 – 29 January 2024) was a French businessman and philanthropist of Lebanese origin. In the late 1970s, Safa enrolled in the American University of Beirut, graduating with a degree in civil engineering. He left Lebanon to become a junior civil engineer in the United States, and then moved to France, where in 1982 he graduated with an MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau.

Together with his brother Akram Safa, he was the owner of Privinvest Holding, a major international naval construction group. In addition to this, Iskandar Safa and his brother Akram controlled, through P.I. Dev SAL, the French company FIMAS SA specialised in developing and managing real estate properties in the South of France.

Iskandar's estate was sued in London by the Republic of Mozambique in a corruption known as scandal known as Tuna Bonds or Hidden Debt Scandal. He was subsequently found guilty and was ordered by the High Court in London to pay back $1.9 billion, with interest, to Mozambique.