French Foreign Trade Advisor
Pierre DIRRIG
Biography
Pierre is an expert with extensive experience in leading teams, managing sales networks and setting up new businesses in various countries. Since 1999, he has also acted as a French foreign trade advisor. His professional career started at Technip (ESIA) in 1980-1981 as an IT engineer in the oil fields of Siberia. He later worked at COMEF from 1977 to 1979 and from 1982 to 1990 as an export sales engineer for scientific instruments and computer systems in the USSR. From 1991 to 2017, he worked at Schneider Electric, where he held various positions including Export Manager for the USSR, Director of Business Development for the CIS, Regional Director for the Caucasus, Central Asia and Belarus, and Director for Uzbekistan. Since 2018, he has been leading the export development team at UzElektroApparat JSC. This man’s education includes an engineering degree from SUPELEC in 1976 and completion of MFG in 1990. He speaks French, German, English and Russian.
