Richard Attias and Associates
Richard Attias & Associates is a strategic communications firm that provides private consultancy, idea initiatives and live experiences. Our mission is to help leaders, corporations and nations build their global influence, catalyze innovation and lead the global exchange of ideas.
Richard Attias is the world's top community builder for the "thinking elite". Over the last two decades, he has built a matchless reputation for helping nations, organizations and corporations catalyze the global exchange of ideas.
As a global influencer, Attias has developed some of the most influential gatherings of world leaders. He was the exclusive producer of the World Economic Forum, including the Davos Forum, for 14 years and co-founder of the Clinton Global Initiative. In just the past few years, his work has included: APEC CEO Summit in Hawaii; the New York Times Schools for Tomorrow, Energy for Tomorrow, and Opportunities for Tomorrow conferences; the Global Food Security Forum in Morocco; the Global Competitiveness Forum in Saudi Arabia; the Qatar-US Business Forum in New York; the Conference of Nobel Laureates; and the African Securities Exchange Association Summit.
Attias is also the founder and chairman of The New York Forum, an annual invitation-only forum for global CEOs, economists and business leaders to share ideas and provide recommendations for new business models in a post-crisis world.
To date there have been three editions of The New York Forum in New York. 2013 will hold the second annual The New York Forum Africa in Libreville, Gabon and The New York Forum 120, in Washington DC. Attias produced Doha GOALS (Gathering Of All Leaders in Sports) in December 2012 in Qatar.