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Jean-Baptiste Recher

Chief Development Officer Luxury Brands Middle East, Africa and Turkiye
Accor

As Chief Development Officer Luxury Brands MEAT, Jean-Baptiste oversees the development activities of the Accor Group in over 75 countries for Accor luxury and ultra luxury brands including Orient Express, Raffles, Fairmont, Sofitel, Emblems and MGallery. He has been instrumental in driving the Group’s organic growth over the last ten years and in particular in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Jean-Baptiste’s wealth of experience spans over a decade within leading companies including Marriott and JLL. His senior leadership roles covered several disciplines from real estate advisory, feasibility studies to asset management and operation across France, the United Kingdom and the Middle East and Africa region. In his previous role, Jean-Baptiste worked for JLL, a leading real estate advisory firm. In this key leadership role, he was responsible for conducting market research, financial modeling, feasibility studies, asset valuation and operator selection. Jean-Baptiste has an MBA in International Hospitality Management from ESSEC Business School, Paris, France as well as a Masters of Hotel and Tourism Management from Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.

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