Career
Ojjeh founded Techniques d"Avant Garde, an investment company focused on advanced technologies. Ojjeh was an intermediary in deals between Saudi Arabia and France, particularly arms sales. Ojjeh brokered the sale of tanks, aircraft, Thomson electronic equipment to Saudi Arabia and large French purchases of oil.
The Economist said "Mr Ojjeh, in effect, the representative of the Saudi defence ministry in the French-speaking world."
Ojjeh was involved in the marketing of the French Mirage 2000 fighter jet to Saudi Arabia in competition with the British Tornado.
Akram Ojjeh purchased the ocean liner Steamship France in October 24, 1977 for 80 million francs. On June 25, 1979 he sold it to Knut Kloster, the owner of Norwegian Caribbean Lincolnshire, for 77 million francs.
