Arnaud NOURRY

A graduate of ESCP (1982), where he was President of the Alumni Association for four years (2016-2020), he also holds a DEA in Sociology from the University of Paris Dauphine (1983). He joined Hachette in 1990, after two years in the Cooperation Department in Cameroon, followed by four years in consultancy firms. After working as a management controller and then as the Group's deputy finance director, in 1996 he took over as secretary general of the Alexandre Hatier Group, becoming its managing director in 2000. In 2003, he was appointed CEO of the Hachette Livre group, then the world's 15th-largest publisher (sales of €800 million, EBIT of €80 million). In eighteen years at the head of Hachette Livre, he radically transformed the Group, making it the world's number 2, publishing 17,000 new titles a year in ten languages, 40% of them in English. He left the Group in 2021 following a strategic disagreement, before announcing the launch of Les Nouveaux Éditeurs in 2024.