Iris Knobloch is Chair and President of the Cannes Film Festival. She has been a director of Lazard since April 2018 and chairs its Nominating and Governance Committee.
She was a senior executive with WarnerMedia and its predecessor companies from 1996 to 2021, most recently as President of WarnerMedia in France, Germany, the Benelux, Austria and Switzerland, and before that led Time Warner's International Relations and Strategic Policy for Europe. She was Chairwoman and CEO of I2PO, a special purpose acquisition company that listed the music streaming platform Deezer on the Paris Stock Exchange in 2022. Earlier she practiced as an attorney with Norr, Stiefenhofer & Lutz and with O'Melveny & Myers in Munich, New York and Los Angeles.
Ms. Knobloch received a J.D. from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet and an LL.M. from New York University.