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Claude Smadja is President of Smadja & Associates. From January 1996 to April 2001, he has been the Managing Director of the World Economic Forum. His portfolio of responsibilities has included, among other domains, direct responsibility for the Annual Meeting in Davos, the Forum's activities in Asia and especially the direct responsibility for the yearly East Asia Economic Summit and the yearly financial services governors meeting, comprising most of the top executives of the major players in this sector.
Prior to his position as Managing Director of the World Economic Forum, Claude Smadja had been Director for the News and Current Affairs Department of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation in Geneva for three years and a Senior Adviser to the World Economic Forum. He had been associated with the World Economic Forum from mid 1987 to January 1993 as a Director and Member of the Executive Board, first creating and heading World Link - the Magazine of the World Economic Forum, and then creating the Forum's first Regional Economic Summit - The East Asia Economic Summit.
He is an occasional contributor to international publications on major issues on the global agenda and on the trends shaping the macroeconomic and the political environment. He is also on the board of corporations in Switzerland and abroad and is the Chairman of the International Board of Overseers at the Illinois Institute of Technology. | 