Marie - Claire DAVEU

Chief sustainability officer and head of international institutional affairs, Kering

Marie-Claire Daveu was appointed Kering’s chief sustainability officer and head of international institutional affairs in 2012, and is a member of the company’s executive committee. She is responsible for the continued development of Kering’s sustainability strategy and the direction of the Group’s institutional affairs.

She joined the company from the public sector where she served as chief of staff to French politician Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, within the Ministry of Ecology and other areas from 2007 to 2012. Prior to this, Marie-Claire was senior director of sustainable development at Sanofi-Aventis Group in 2005. She was previously technical adviser to the cabinet of Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin and Principal Private Secretary to Serge Lepeltier, Minister of Ecology and Sustainability.

She is a graduate of the French National Institute of Agronomy Paris-Grignon, the École Nationale du Génie Rural des Eaux et Forêts (National School of Rural Water and Forestry Engineering). She also earned a Diplôme d'Etudes Supérieures Spécialisées (diploma of specialised higher studies) in public administration from Dauphine University, Paris.