Yoann Besse

Yoann Besse

Managing Director | France


Yoann is an experienced professional with a strong focus on corporate, financial, institutional and crisis communications for clients in various sectors. He started his career as a consultant at Ogilvy PR and joined the Paris office of Citigate Dewe Rogerson in 2009. He has managed French operations since 2017 and led the merger with Grayling France.

Yoann advises international clients on their announcements in France and French companies on their international communications.

He supervises and coordinates campaigns for all types of situations (transactions, IPOs, restructuring, day-to-day activities, product launches, influencer programmes, etc.) and trains his clients to prepare for sensitive issues. He holds Master’s degrees in Political Economy and International Business from the London School of Economics and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences-Po).