Corporate Social Responsibility Manager
Adecco Group, France

Bruce Roch is currently the Corporate Social Responsibility Manager of the Adecco Group in France, with CSR priorities set in terms of diversity/non discrimination, prevention, health, safety, talent development and environment. Since 2006, he has been leading the Innovation & Diversity Unit, setting group policies against discrimination and for equal opportunities at work in areas such as gender equality, ageing workforce, racial/
ethnic discrimination or disability inclusion. He is the Vice President and co-founder of the French Association of Diversity Managers (AFMD). In addition, from 2004, he led the Disability & Skills program for the Adecco Group worldwide following Adecco’s commitment during the European Year of People with Disabilities 2003, and is founder of the Business & Disability initiative undertaken with partner companies in association with the European Commission. Prior to that, he worked as an executive search consultant within a French subsidiary of Adecco, where he launched a dedicated practice for the dotcoms, or coordinated the ISO quality management standards. From 1996 till 1998, he set an innovative fundraising policy through products and retail at Handicap International, an NGO which was one of the co-recipients of the Nobel Prize for their action in the worldwide campaign to ban landmines in 1997.
Bruce Roch is a graduate of the EM Lyon Business School.