Alain Dehaze is CEO of the Adecco Group, the world’s leading workforce solutions partner. Through its global brands Adecco, Adia, Badenoch & Clark, General Assembly, Lee Hecht Harrison, Modis, Pontoon, Spring Professional and YOSS, the Adecco Group is making the future work for everyone. As a Fortune Global 500 Company, the Adecco Group connects 700,000 jobseekers with rewarding employment every day, helps 350’000 people yearly to transition to work, and supports more than 100,000 organisations with the talent, advice and cutting-edge technology they need to succeed in an ever-changing and highly-competitive global economy.
Alain plays an active role in shaping the labour markets of tomorrow as a Board Member of the Global Apprenticeship Network (GAN), as member of the ILO Global Commission on the Future of Work, as Steward of the World Economic Forum (WEF) System on Education, Gender and Work and as Co-Chair of the Governors for the WEF’s Professional Services Industry Community. Before accepting to lead the Adecco Group, he also held board positions at sector level with the World Employment Confederation, including the Vice-Presidency of the World Employment Confederation Europe (formerly EUROCIETT).
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