Speaker profile

Louis Abi Abboud

Deputy Head, Lifestyle Brands & Vice President Development, Middle East, Africa, India & Turkey
Accor

Louis is responsible for overseeing all lifestyle hotels in the MEA, India and Turkey from deal making, to programming, to design all the way to opening and operation.

While continuing to focus in parallel on strategic expansion and development of Accor lifestyle and luxury brands and strengthening owner relationship. .

Louis has diverse experience within the hospitality industry having served on the property owner side as well as the hotel operator side. He began his career in operations with Starwood Hotel and Resorts in California before moving back to the region to work in asset management for both Saudi Bin Ladin Group in Jeddah and Majid Al Futtaim in Dubai. Louis was also engaged with consultancy firm HVS as part of their Consulting and Valuations practice in Dubai.