Pierre-Édouard Stérin

Stérin grew up in Normandy in a middle-class family.^[5] His father is a chartered accountant and his mother works at a bank.^[6] He attended the Lycée Aristide-Briand in Évreux, in the economics stream.^[7]

In 2023, Stérin made an unsuccessful joint bid with Daniel Křetínský and Stéphane Courbit for about 37% of Vivendi's publishing division Editis.^[8] In 2025, he was part of a consortium that agreed to buy right-wing magazine Valeurs Actuelles.^[9]

In 2023, he and François Durvye co-invested €2.5 million to buy Jean-Marie Le Pen's family house in Paris.^[5] In 2025, his fortune was estimated at around 1.3 billion euros (1.5 billion dollars).^[10]

Stérin is close to traditionalist Catholicism.^[11] In 2024, he launched the Périclès project [fr], an initiative to strengthen right-wing policies in France.^[5] Together with right-wing media entrepreneur and billionaire Vincent Bolloré, he organized the "Summit of Freedoms" ("sommet des libertés") in 2025. At the summit, media makers brought together conservative and right-wing politicians.^[12]

Stérin is married and has five children.^[12] Since 2012, he has lived in Belgium for tax reasons and justifies his move as follows: "I am very critical of the government. So many freedoms are being curtailed, and all the taxes imposed on us are being misused."^[12]