Jonas Prising is a

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in the

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industry.

Current executive roles

Prising became

Chief Executive Officer A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief administrator officer (CAO) or just chief executive (CE), is one of a number of corporate executives charged with the management of an organization especially ...

ManpowerGroup ManpowerGroup (formerly known as Manpower Inc.) is a Fortune 500 American multinational corporation headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Founded in 1948 by Elmer Winter and Aaron Scheinfeld, ManpowerGroup is the third-largest staffing firm in ...

Inc. in 2014, giving him responsibility for ManpowerGroup's $20 billion global operations. He is the fourth CEO the company has had in its 68-year history. He has been with the ManpowerGroup since 1999.

Boards

Prising serves on the JA Worldwide, JA USA and JA of Wisconsin Inc., boards. He is co-chair of MiKE.

Employment history

Prior to his current leadership role at ManpowerGroup Inc., Prising held other key executive roles at the firm. This includes: President of The Americas Operations at Manpower Inc. and three years earlier its

Executive Vice President A vice president, also director in British English, is an officer in government or business who is below the president (chief executive officer) in rank. It can also refer to executive vice presidents, signifying that the vice president is on t ...

. Prising held other roles at other firms in the past including: Executive VP at Experis US, Inc., President of United States and Canadian Operations of Manpower Inc., the Executive VP of US and Canadian Operations, Managing Director of Manpower Italy of Manpower Inc., Director of Manpower Global Accounts of EMEA, President of North America and President of the Americas at Manpower Inc., and also a range of key roles at

Electrolux Electrolux AB () is a Swedish multinational home appliance manufacturer, headquartered in Stockholm. It is consistently ranked the world's second largest appliance maker by units sold, after Whirlpool. Electrolux products sell under a variety ...

Education

Prising has the equivalent of an

MBA A Master of Business Administration (MBA; also Master's in Business Administration) is a postgraduate degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA program cover various areas of business administration such as accounti ...

from the

Stockholm School of Economics The Stockholm School of Economics (SSE; sv, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm, HHS) is a private business school located in city district Vasastaden in the central part of Stockholm, Sweden. SSE offers BSc, MSc and MBA programs, along with ...

Additional information

Prising speaks five languages: English, French, German, Italian and Swedish. He has lived in nine countries spanning the

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and

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regions. He lives with his family in the

Milwaukee Milwaukee ( ), officially the City of Milwaukee, is both the most populous and most densely populated city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Milwaukee County. With a population of 577,222 at the 2020 census, Milwaukee is ...

area. He takes part in an amateur

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league. He has both American and Swedish citizenship. He was described by outgoing President and CEO Jeffrey Joerres as being “absolutely ready” to take on the role of heading the company and that he is a “true global citizen.” He believes that Prising’s knowledge of France is extremely useful for the firm as it is their single biggest market. One of his claims to fame is that out of all active Fortune 500 CEOs, Prising has been on

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the longest, at 2,145 days.

Event participation

Over the years Prising has participated in various executive events. This includes such programs at

INSEAD INSEAD, a contraction of "Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires" () is a non-profit business school that maintains campuses in Europe ( Fontainebleau, France), Asia (Singapore), the Middle East (Abu Dhabi, UAE), and North America (San ...

Stanford Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is considere ...

and

Yale Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wor ...

, as well as the

World Economic Forum The World Economic Forum (WEF) is an international non-governmental and lobbying organisation based in Cologny, canton of Geneva, Switzerland. It was founded on 24 January 1971 by German engineer and economist Klaus Schwab. The foundation, ...

annual and regional meetings. He also often speaks at various conferences and summits internationally. He offers insights into work trends for the media.

References

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