Marie-Claire Daveu

Marie-Claire Daveu is the Chief Sustainability Officer and Head of international institutional affairs at Kering, as well as a member of Kering’s Executive Committee. She is responsible for the continued development of Kering’s sustainability strategy and operationalising sustainability across the Group, while also directing institutional affairs world-wide.

Previously working in the public sector in France, Daveu occupied the post of Technical Adviser to the Cabinet of Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin and Chief of Staff to Serge Lepeltier, Minister of Ecology and sustainable development, before joining Sanofi-Aventis Group in 2005 as Senior Director of sustainable development. From 2007 to 2012, Daveu served as Chief of Staff to Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, first within the Ministry of Ecology, then in charge of forecasting and the digital economy, and lastly, within the Ministry of Ecology, sustainable development, transport and energy.

Marie-Claire Daveu is a graduate of the Paris Grignon National Institute of Agronomy (INA PG), the National School of Rural Engineering, Water and Forests (ENGREF) and holder of a DESS (masters) in public administration from the University of Paris Dauphine.