Geoffroy BUNETELPresident - CCI France UAE and Chief of Staff to the President - Chalhoub Group

Geoffroy Bunetel was elected Chairman of CCI France UAE in November 2021 after holding the position of President of the French Business Council Dubai & Northern Emirates (FBC) since 2018 where he played a pivotal role in leading the alliance between the FBC and the French Business Group Abu Dhabi (FBG) to create CCI France UAE.

He is a member of the High-Level France – UAE Business Council (“Haut Conseil d’Affaires franco-emirien”) created in 2022.

In 2022, Geoffroy Bunetel has been elected as Board Member and Deputy Treasurer of CCI France International, the network of the 125 French International Chambers of Commerce.

Since 2021, he has been Chief of Staff to the President at Chalhoub Group, the leading luxury retailer in the Middle East (750 stores and 14,000 employees). He joined Chalhoub Group in 2013 and held the position of Group Head of Strategy, Intelligence and Growth from 2015 to 2020.

Previously Geoffroy worked as senior manager specialised in Government Services at EY in Paris. He accompanied many public entities in the evaluation of their policies and in their transformation journey (Ministry of Economy and Finance, Ministry of Housing, French Parliament, European Commission…).

Born in 1977, he graduated from Sciences Po (Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris) in 1998 and from HEC (Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales) in 2002.