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Petra Jaeger is currently a Masters candidate (2021) in International Relations/Political Science at The Graduate Institute (IHEID) in Geneva, Switzerland.
Petra completed her Bachelors in International Business Administration at the Rotterdam School of Management in 2016 graduating cum laude. Subsequently, Petra has worked in change management at AkzoNobel N.V.’s headquarters in Amsterdam as well as in donor relations at a nonprofit organisation called International Care Ministries Ltd. in Hong Kong.
Petra is an enthusiast of multicultural settings, geopolitics and together with her husband enjoys spending time in the great outdoors.
In 2016 Théodore graduated from the Catholic Institute of Paris with a bachelors in PPS, and in 2017 obtained his Master degree in Global Hospitality Business from the Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne. Theodore has lived and worked in a number of countries ranging from Switzerland to China. These journeys abroad opened his eyes to the world and reinforced his ambition to pursue a career with an international dimension.
Theodore started his career in the events industry. 2018 gave him his first taste of entrepreneurship when he launched a brasserie in the heart of Paris. Théodore then developed his sales and marketing skills with the start-up ‘Bottes en Villes’ and the hospitality tech company ‘Mews’.
In May 2020 he joined the Monthly Barometer where he brings his enthousiasm and commitment to a role focused on Business Development and Client Management.
Mary Anne Malleret graduated in History from the University of Oxford. Her early career was spent in the fine art world of London, Paris and New York.
From 1991 to 1998 she worked for HRH The Prince of Wales in his private office in London in a variety of capacities (ranging from being part of the travelling office for overseas tours, speech writing, to putting together and accompanying HRH on domestic official visits).
Since moving from London to the Alps (via Moscow) Mary Anne has devoted the majority of her time to raising her and Thierry’s family of four daughters. She combined this with voluntary work in the education sector, periodic spells of report writing for World Economic Forum regional summits and private language teaching.
Since 2015 Mary Anne has been increasingly engaged in the development and writing of the Monthly Barometer and, as Director, in the production of the Summits of Minds both in Chamonix and further afield.
In 2017 she co-authored with Thierry 10 Good Reasons to Go for a Walk – a book that conveys the vital message that walking can change not only our lives, but also our world.
Most recently in 2020 Mary Anne lent her writing skills to the manuscript of the international best seller COVID-19: The Great Reset co-authored by Thierry Malleret and Klaus Schwab.
Mary Anne continues to reserve as much time as possible for those things that she recognizes as essential to her mental and physical wellbeing: her family (now scattered across the globe) hiking, ski-ing and painting.
Rachel grew up in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, Rachel’s very core revolves around her love and respect for nature. This all began with her being raised on a family horse farm in Colorado, followed by an athletic scholarship to Oklahoma State University where she majored in International Business.
Immediately after college she found herself wandering in the vineyards of Mendoza, Argentina where she worked for three years as an accounts manager for a private vineyard management company.
Rachel then relocated to Aspen, Colorado and entered the realm of cosmetics, joining the buying team of a boutique cosmetics company. Chamonix is twinned Aspen, it all made sense for her to relocate to France with her husband a native of Haute Savoie.
Rachel has a knack for multicultural settings, languages, mental and physical health and cuisine. At Monthly Barometer she is responsible for office operations, team coordination, internal accounting and more.
She is passionate about her family, travel, community inclusion and female participation in sports.Rachel and her husband embrace the great outdoors by gardening, mountain biking and skiing together.
Carolina de Jong is energetic and creative. She combines her organizational talents, operational skills, and discretion to build lasting professional relationships.
She has nearly 20 years of experience working in sales & marketing, business development, and event management, including a successful 15-year career at the World Economic Forum in Geneva, Switzerland.
In 2019, she founded EVA, a company providing guidance and support to fellow entrepreneurs with their business operations and event development and execution.
At Monthly Barometer, Carolina’s responsibilities embrace event and project management, business and partnership development and financial operations.
In addition to her professional passions, Carolina enjoys hiking, kickboxing, and reading.
Born to Austrian parents, Rupert Schmid came to France with his mother when he was four years old.
In 1988 at the age of 21, he was already Development Director at Journal des Finance, then Managing Director at Défis magazine, and finally in 1995 Managing Director of Sorio communication group.
In 1999, Rupert was recruited by Henri Proglio as director of communication and marketing at the future Veolia. Rupert studied at INSEAD for a semester, but firmly believes that more than anything he owes success to personal acumen and pragmatism, tried and tested in the school of ‘doing’. After seven intense years in the halls of power, he wanted to tackle something new.
In 2007, a connection with the Allouche family, Biologique Recherche’s owners, gave him the opportunity to enter the luxury cosmetics field. In partnership with his friend, Pierre-Louis Delapalme, Rupert took over Biologique Recherche. Their policy was to invest heavily in R&D bringing production in-house to an almost pharmaceutical-grade laboratory and rolling out international distribution in (to date) more than 80 countries.
A mutual belief in the expanding importance of wellness and wellbeing led to Rupert’s involvement with Thierry Malleret and his investment in the Monthly Barometer. Rupert brings to the Monthly Barometer team the benefits of his outstanding experience and insight from the realms of wellness and communication.
Claudia Miclaus applies her personal vision and unfailing commitment to redefine what is possible. She holds a joint degree and MBA in law and business, with a focus on communication and conflict management.
Since graduating in Spain, Claudia has worked in various management-level posts and lived in 8 countries including Switzerland, France and the United States.
Claudia was instrumental in creating Femcoder, an international community project aiming to empower women in terms of agency and access in the tech sector with a particular focus on Eastern European countries where Claudia spent her formative years.
At the Monthly Barometer, Claudia has particular responsibility for the digital dimension of the business: digital transformation and online brand strategy.
Her other keen interests include psychology, cross-cultural communication, mental health and personal development programs.
Prior to joining Monthly Barometer, Camille Martin worked for a financial consulting firm in Paris. Here the main focus of her work was risk management issues in the field of banking compliance. Camille also spent a year in Australia working for the French-Australian Chamber of Commerce to develop Franco-Australian business relationships.
As part of the Monthly Barometer team, Camille has particular responsibility for research and business development projects.
An avid traveller and mountain enthusiast, Camille is by nature curious, energetic, rigorous and committed.
Thierry Malleret is the founder and managing partner of Monthly Barometer. Our eponymous flagship monthly newsletter is Thierry’s brainchild and the product of his innovative and exacting approach to research and analysis.
Thierry possesses decades of unique professional experience spanning investment banking, as a Chief Economist and Strategist of a major Russian investment bank and as an Economist at the EBRD in London; think tanks and academia in New York and Oxford and government including a three-year spell in the Prime Minister’s office in Paris. At the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, Thierry founded and headed the Global Risk Network and for a number of years was responsible for the programme of the annual meeting at Davos. Until 2011 Thierry was senior partner at IJ (Informed Judgement) Partners, an investment boutique based in Geneva, and prior to that managing partner at Rainbow Insight, an advisory boutique providing tailor-made intelligence to investors which he founded and subsequently sold.
In 2015 Thierry also founded the Summit of Minds. These high-level meetings combine hard thinking on major macro issues and the importance of personal wellbeing and the power of nature. Thierry thus achieved a serendipitous coming together of a life-long enthusiasm for the great outdoors and the creation of world class gatherings. Initially in Chamonix, the MB Summits of Minds now also take place in a variety of international locations.
Thierry has many business and academic publications to his name and has published four novels. His latest book, COVID-19: The Great Reset, co-written with Klaus Schwab, has been translated into multiple languages and is an international best seller. Thierry speaks all over the world with leading agencies. He also sits on a variety of advisory boards.
Thierry was educated at the Sorbonne and Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and at St. Antony’s College, Oxford. He holds two MAs (in Economics and History) and a PhD in Economics.
As CEO of Adeft Capital, Carol Melton advises and invests in innovative new businesses at various stages. Carol previously held top management positions at two global media and entertainment companies. At Time Warner, she served as Executive Vice President, Global Public Policy, managing offices in Washington, London, Brussels, Hong Kong and Buenos Aires, and overseeing the policy portfolio for the company’s HBO, Warner Bros. and Turner/CNN divisions. Before Time Warner, Carol headed global government affairs for the earlier-combined Viacom and CBS, where her responsibilities included Paramount, MTV Networks, Showtime and all CBS interests in news and entertainment.
Carol serves as a board member of The RealReal (NASDAQ: REAL) and JBG Smith (NYSE: JBGS), as well as a director and First Vice President of the Economic Club of Washington, D.C. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Carol has been a moderator and speaker at numerous domestic and international conferences related to trade, technology and innovation. Washingtonian magazine has repeatedly named her among the 100 Most Powerful Women in Washington.
Earlier in her career, Carol served as Legal Advisor to the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission; Assistant General Counsel for the organization known today as NCTA/The Internet & Television Association; and as an associate with the law firm now named Hogan Lovells. She holds a JD from American University’s Washington College of Law; an MA in communications from the University of Florida; and a BA from Wake Forest University. Carol lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband, lawyer and literary scholar Joseph Hassett.
Olivier Fleurot is now a consultant advising companies on corporate communication strategy and digital transformation. He is also mentoring start-ups in various fields such as energy, digital media, and urban mobility.
He worked at Publicis from 2006 to 2017, first as CEO of Publicis Worldwide, an international network of advertising agencies, then as CEO of MSL Group, a global network of PR and communication agencies. In 2015 Maurice Levy appointed Olivier to the position of Group Senior Vice-President, in charge of Communication, Real Estate, and Insurance. Olivier took an active part in the recent transformation of Publicis Group which was launched in 2015.
From 2002 to 2006, Olivier Fleurot was Chief Executive of the Financial Times Group, a Pearson company, in charge of the group’s newspapers: the Financial Times worldwide, Financial Times Deutschland in Germany, Les Echos in France, Vedemosti in Russia, and FT Business, publisher of Investor’s Chronicle and the Banker. From 1999 to 2002 he was the MD of the Financial Times newspaper. Olivier was appointed to the Pearson Management Committee in October 2002.
He has been alternatively Chairman or vice-Chairman of FTSE, a joint venture between the FT and the London Stock Exchange. Olivier worked in London for 8 years.
Before moving to London to take up his role at the Financial Times in January 1999, Olivier was Chief Executive of the Les Echos group, France’s leading business publisher, based in Paris.
One of the longest serving employees at Google globally, Ted Souder currently is the Head of Industry, Retail based in Chicago, Illinois. In this role Ted oversees a sales team that is tasked with helping some of the world’s largest retailers leverage digital platforms in order to meet the demands of today’s consumer. Prior to his current role, Ted had other sales and operations leadership roles both in Paris and Chicago. Before joining Google Ted worked at ground breaking start ups AOL, Excite and Echo Networks. Ted also worked for 3 NFL teams helping run game day operations.
Ted is an active board member serving as an Executive Committee Member of the Economic Club of Chicago, Vice Chair of the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce and is a member of the board at 1871, the #1 ranked University affiliated technology incubator in the world. Ted is also a member of Revolution Ventures, Rise of the Rest Expert Network, the Commercial Club of Chicago and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs where he is a member of their Emerging Leaders class of 2014.
Ted is an active speaker, advisor and investor globally. An expert in innovation, digital platforms, marketing, the importance of incubators and the Google story, Ted brings 22 years of experience on the front lines of the digital revolution to audiences who are eager to make the transition to being more digital in their thinking and actions.
Ted lives in Chicago, Illinois USA with his wife Lori, the founder of Here Today, Africa Tomorrow, a conservation focused safari company and their two young children.
Philippe Bourguignon is one of the most highly regarded executives in the travel industry, with an impressive track record as an innovator and leader. A self-proclaimed dreamer, he has dedicated his 40-year career in tourism to changing the way people experience the world by seeking out new and disruptive brands.
He is Vice Chairman of Revolution Places LLC, Co-Chairman of the Board of Exclusive Resorts, a board member of another Revolution company, CAVA and also advises several portfolio companies.
In addition Philippe is an active board member of Neiman Marcus. He also serves on the global board of Operation Hope and is chairman of HOPE Global Forums. He is also chairman of Primonial, and an active investor in OneRagtime, a European disruptive venture platform. He previously served on the board of Zipcar and spent 11-years on the board at eBay.
Between 2003 and 2004, Philippe was co-CEO of the World Economic Forum. Prior to this he was Chairman and CEO of Euro Disney. Previously, as chairman and CEO of Club Med, he was widely credited for the comprehensive turnaround of the company in 2000.
Philippe began his career in tourism with the Accor group and during his 14-year tenure held many senior executive positions within the group.
In 2005, Philippe published his first book, Hop!, on the paradoxes of the world and the French economy.
On a personal note — Philippe is married, and the father of two children. He is a man of many passions – an enthusiastic, competitive yachtsman, proud of a record he set with Bruno Peyron, in 1996 for crossing the English Channel.