Iris Knobloch

Iris Knobloch is President of the Cannes Film Festival. She is Vice Chairman and Lead Independent Director of the Board of Directors of AccorHotels, a member of the Board of Directors of Lazard Bank (Chair of the Nomination and Governance Committee) and Governor of the American Hospital in Paris.

She has spent 25 years in senior leadership positions at Warner Bros, Time Warner and Warner Media, most recently as President of WarnerMedia France, Germany, Benelux, Austria and Switzerland. In this role, Iris Knobloch was responsible for the development and execution of WarnerMedia’s strategy in the region. She was previously President of Warner Bros Entertainment France beginning in 2006. Since 1996, Knobloch has worked in several positions out of Warner Bros’ offices in Los Angeles, London and Paris. Prior to working with Warner Bros, Iris Knobloch was an attorney with Norr, Stiefenhofer & Lutz and O’Melveny & Myers in Munich, New York and Los Angeles.

Iris Knobloch is trilingual in English, German and French. She received a J.D. degree from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet in Munich, Germany in 1987 and an L.L.M. degree from New York University in 1992. She is licensed to practice law in Germany, New York and California.

She was previously a member of the Board of Directors of LVMH, the Axel Springer Group and CME Central European Media Enterprises. In 2008, she was named Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur.