Richard Attias (born 1959) is a Moroccan born global events producer, former chairman of PublicisLive and presently the Executive Chairman of the Experience Corporation. Attias was the producer of the World Economic Forum in Davos for over fifteen years.
Attias was born on November 19, 1959 in Fez, Morocco, and graduated from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees, an engineering school in France. He began his career as a sales executive at I...
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Richard Attias (born 1959) is a Moroccan born global events producer, former chairman of PublicisLive and presently the Executive Chairman of the Experience Corporation. Attias was the producer of the World Economic Forum in Davos for over fifteen years.
Attias was born on November 19, 1959 in Fez, Morocco, and graduated from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees, an engineering school in France. He began his career as a sales executive at IBM France and in 1986 became the General Manager of Econocom France and Econocom Japan, a computer leasing company.
During the 1990s, Attias founded an Event Management Company and produced various global events including the Zurich Insurances Convention and Boris Yeltsin's visit to France. Richard was awarded the contract for the signature of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) signature agreements in Marrakesh and for the Middle East and North Africa summit meeting in Casablanca.
A brief encounter with Klaus Schwab, President...
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