Since 2010, Louis Dreyfus is CEO of Le Monde Group (Le Monde, Télérama, La Vie, Courrier international, Le HuffPost France, Le Monde diplomatique), the major independent media Group in France.

Louis Dreyfus started his career in New York in 1993 where he worked for 6 years as international controller with Hachette Filipacchi Magazines and its 37 magazines published at the time in the US. As such, he contributed to the launch of George Magazine, the acquisition of Première and Mirabella and the development of titles such as Elle, Car & Driver and Woman’s Day. During the same period, Louis Dreyfus was also the US Correspondent of the French edition of Première Magazine.

He then moved to Marseille (France) where he worked as CFO of the regional daily La Provence before becoming successively, from 2001 to 2008, CEO of Libération (French national daily) CEO of Le Nouvel Observateur (weekly magazine) and CEO of Les Editions Indépendantes (publishing company of the weekly Les Inrockuptibles).

Louis is an alumnus of the London School of Economics (London) and graduated from HEC graduate school of management (Paris).

Louis Dreyfus is also chairman of L'Ecole Supérieure de Journalisme de Lille, the leading graduate school of journalism in France and a board member of Agence France Presse.