Sébastien Bazin (born 9 November 1961) is a French businessman. He is the chairman and chief executive officer of AccorHotels (; ). As CEO of Accor, he has committed to the UN's

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Biography

Early life

He studied at Saint-Jean de Passy, holds a degree in economics obtained in 1984 and a master's degree in management, finance option, obtained at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University in 1985Bloomberg BusinessWeek
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Career

Sébastien Bazin began his career in finance in the United States, Clore then Painewebber groups in

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, then went to London.Lsa-conso.fr - Le carnet des décideurs - Sébastien Bazin - http://www.lsa-conso.fr/carnet-des-decideurs/bazin-sebastien,135902. He returned to France and became the Director of Investment Banking Hottinguer Rivaud Finances from 1990 to 1992. He continued his career by becoming Managing Director of the company Immobilière Hôtelière in 1992. He held this position for five years. In 1997, he began to serve as chief executive officer, principal, and managing director of Europe at

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, a global real estate investment company.Patrick Bonazza
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'', 27/08/2013 He served on the board of directors of Hottinguer Rivaud Finances, an investment bank. He also served on the board of

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from 2010 to 2013. In 2006, Bazin became one of the shareholders of Paris Saint-Germain (PSG), via

. On 3, he became the 14th president of PSG, following the departure of Charles Villeneuve. Since July 2011 and the acquisition of PSG by a

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investment fund, he is no longer majority shareholder. Since August 2013, he has been chairman of the board and chief executive officer of

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, a global hotel corporation. In November 2017, at the 4th Challenges magazine's Economic Summit, Bazin announced the preparation of a strategic alliance with one of the giants of the net-economy to accelerate the dematerialization and the digital transformation of the Accor group.Sébastien Bazin : « AccorHotels doit absolument se diversifier »
le Monde, 16 novembre 2017

References

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