Claude Smadja Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors

Claude Smadja is a politics graduate from the University of Lausanne. After a number of years as Deputy Editor of the Information Department at Télévision Suisse Romande (TSR), the TV channel for French-speaking Switzerland, in 1987 he joined the management of the World Economic Forum, a post that he was to hold until 1992. He then returned to TSR as Information Director until 1996, when he was appointed Managing Director of the World Economic Forum. In 2001, Claude Smadja set up his own strategy consultancy, Smadja & Associates, Strategic Advisory. Claude Smadja sits on the Board of the Edipresse Group and of Infosys, where he also holds the post of Chairman of the Nomination Committee. In addition, he is Chairman of the Board of Overseers of the Illinois Institute of Technology and member of the International Advisory Board of Korn Ferry International. A member of the Kudelski SA Board of Directors since 1999, Claude Smadja has been Deputy Chairman of that body since 1st April 2002. He is also Chairman of the Audit Committee and member of the Strategy Committee.

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