Maurice Levy

Maurice Lévy is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Publicis Groupe, one of the world's four leading communications organizations.

Under Maurice Levy's stewardship, Publicis Groupe has been transformed into a global powerhouse of top creative advertising and marketing agencies and is today a pioneer in digital and online communications. It includes three of the world's top advertising networks (Saatchi & Saatchi, Leo Burnett and Publicis), two leading global media buying and consulting groups (Starcom MediaVest Group and ZenithOptimedia) and a host of world-class marketing services companies. A major strategic link with Japan's Dentsu was announced in 2002 and in early 2007 the friendly acquisition of Digitas Inc., a leading force in online communications. Publicis Groupe is today present in 107 countries with a full range of services. It is quoted on the Paris Euronext.

Maurice Lévy holds the distinctions of "Commandeur" of the French Légion d'Honneur and of the Ordre National du Mérite. He is a past President of the Jury of the Cannes Advertising Film Festival, served on the French Government Commission to combat Drug Addiction, and was a member of the Advisory Committee of the Banque de France. He is on the Board of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Since 2002, he is co-chair of the French-American
Business Council. He is also a member of the International Advisory Board of The Council on Foreign Relations in New York and the World Economic Forum Foundation Board in Geneva, and has been on the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bank since June 2006. Since 2005 he has been in a personal capacity a co-founder and administrator of the ICM (Institute for Cerebral and Medullary Disorders) and President of the Association of Friends of the ICM.

He received the Benjamin Franklin Award from the French American Foundation in 2004 in New York and in the same year the Scopus Award from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 2006, Mr. Lévy was asked by French Finance Minister Thierry Breton to chair the Commission on Intangible Assets, which delivered its findings and recommendations in November 2006.