Patrice Schneider

Chief Strategy Officer, Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF), Switzerland

Patrice started his publishing career as a journalist reporting from conflicts in Central Asia at the end of the 1980s. Before joining MDIF in 2002, within the AOL Time Warner Group he served as Managing. From 1994 to 1998 he was Deputy Managing Director at Hachette Filipacchi Medias – the leading French publishing group and owner of Elle, Paris Match and other internationally renowned magazines. In 2021, Patrice co-initiated Plūrālis – a €100-million blended capital vehicle aimed at providing mission-aligned capital for pluralism to keep media companies editorially independent and financially viable in Council of Europe countries.