Media Development Loan Fund, Chief Strategy Officer

A press freedom enthousiast, Patrice started his publishing career as a journalist reporting from conflicts in Central Asia at the end of the 1980s. Before being involved in media development, he held the responsibilities of Managing Director of Netscape Europe overseeing it’s European activities. In 1998, before joining Netscape, Schneider was a Senior Adviser for the World Economic Forum (The Davos summit). Prior to this mission, he was Deputy Managing Director at Hachette Filipacchi Medias – the leading French publishing group and owner of ELLE, PREMIERE and other internationally renowned magazines. Schneider has also worked as a
Director at the World Association of Newspapers in Paris.