Dag Rasmussen

Dag Rasmussen is a Norwegian national living in France. He has been Chairman and CEO of Lagardère Travel Retail since 2011 and, with his teams, has made travel retail a central activity for the Lagardère Group.

As an ESSEC graduate, Dag began his career at the Société Internationale de Télécommunications Aéronautiques (SITA), where he spent five years.

He joined Lagardère Travel Retail as International Management Controller in 1988. In 1991, he was appointed Management and Organization Director of Press Shop in Brussels before joining AMP, the Belgian press distribution subsidiary, which was then part of the Lagardère Group. Dag became Chairman and CEO of AMP in 1996.

In 1999, he was promoted to Deputy Managing Director of Lagardère Travel Retail for Central and Eastern Europe, to which were then added Western and Southern Europe, and North America.