Samia Hadj is Global Public Relations & Communications Director at Natixis Investment Managers. After working for seven years in the City of London, Samia is now based in Paris. She started her career in media in 2010, and worked at the French newspaper Les Échos, in the international advertising department. Samia joined Natixis a year later to do media relations and moved to Natixis London in 2014 to take on a more global job. Over the years her role expanded in the strategic planning, development and implementation of communications and public relations campaigns all around the world (Europe, APAC, Mena and Latin America).
She works closely with CEOs and Senior Executive teams from Natixis and its affiliated investment companies, which allowed her to gain broad experience in M&A communication, crisis communication management and branding. Samia is an entrepreneur and global citizen at heart, who feels energized when working in an international environment and launching new initiatives.
Samia studied Business and Finance at the Trinity College of Dublin in Ireland and she holds a Master in Negotiation and Sales Management from Strasbourg Business School (France).