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Alexandra Palt is a human rights lawyer from Austria who is L'Oreal's Chief Corporate Responsibility Officer and the Executive Vice President of the L'Oréal Foundation. In 2019, she was added to L'Oreal's Executive Committee.^[1]

Biography

In 2001, she began working for Amnesty International in Berlin.^[2]

After moving to Paris, she began working for the nonprofit group IMS-Entreprendre pour la Cité, a nonprofit organization that "mobilizes and inspires companies to act and generate social transformations."^[3] She then worked at the French Equal Opportunities and Anti-Discrimination Commission, directing their program to promote equality.^[2]

In 2008, she left the nonprofit sector to found her own consulting group Fabric of Society, advising companies on strategy for corporate social responsibility.^[4]

In 2012, she became L'Oreal's first "chief sustainability officer." That year she launched two sustainability initiatives: Oreal's Zero Deforestation Policy and Sharing Beauty with All, which xx.^[5]

Sources

Establishing GNG: independent in-depth coverage in 2013 Guardian, 2017 Usine,^[4]2019 Figaro,^[2] WWD 2020,^[5] and 2020 Independent.co.uk.

2019 Figaro^[2]

2017 Usine^[4]

https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2020/05/12/coronavirus-l-oreal-consacre-150-millions-d-euros-pour-l-environnement-et-pour-les-femmes_6039467_3234.html

https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000375429

Alexandra Palt

https://en.unesco.org/news/loreal-unesco-women-science-awards-honour-five-women-researchers-mathematics-astrophysics

2020 WWD

https://web.archive.org/web/20200425061320/https://wwd.com/beauty-industry-news/beauty-features/loreals-alexandra-palt-talks-sustainability-covid-19-and-priorities-1203561680/

https://brandequity.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/business-of-brands/the-other-crisis-loreals-alexandra-palt-on-making-sustainability-beautiful/77224932

Times Business Awards 2020

ETBrandEquity.com Shark Awards 2020 September 2020

https://philanthropywomen.org/gender-lens-corporate/gender-equality-index-expands-metrics/

Gender Equality Index Tracks More Companies, Expands Metrics... (Palt not mentioned in this article)

Companies included in the 2020 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index... L’Oréal

2020 Harpers https://www.harpersbazaar.com/uk/beauty/skincare/a32958723/loreal-sustainability-pledge-2030/

L'Oréal Group reveals aim to be fully sustainable by 2030 Welcome news from the world’s largest beauty company

BY BECKI MURRAY

JUL 6, 2020

Dubbed 'L’Oréal For The Future', the company's new sustainability programme ...

Resilience^[6]

2020 NYT^[7]

Today, all over the world in all our societies, gender inequalities are exacerbated by the unprecedented crisis the world is facing.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandra-palt-953133a/?originalSubdomain=fr

Self-description on LinkedIn

2020 WWD goals^[8]

L'Oréal extended description of job history

https://www.reutersevents.com/sustainability/business-strategy/c-suite-interview-alexandra-palt-chief-sustainability-officer-loreal

C-Suite interview: Alexandra Palt, Chief Sustainability Officer of L’Oreal

By Oliver Balch on Feb 6, 2015

2013 Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/loreal-chief-sustainability-officer

L'Oreal's chief sustainability officer believes conviction and empathy vital

Oliver Balch @OLIVERBALCH Mon 11 Nov 2013 02.00 EST

The Org https://theorg.com/org/loreal/org-chart/alexandra-palt

https://fondationloreal.com/posts/gouvernance-fonctionnement/en

https://www.greenbiz.com/article/25-badass-women-shaking-corporate-climate-movement

By Heather Clancy

March 8, 2019

https://www.moodiedavittreport.com/loreal-for-the-future-beauty-powerhouse-unveils-ambitious-ten-year-sustainability-programme/

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2017 NYT https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/01/us/womens-crucial-role-in-combating-climate-change.html

https://www.loreal-finance.com/system/files/2019-09/LOreal_2017_Progress_Report_SBWA.pdf

https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/business/alexandra-palt-loreal-sustainable-corporate-responsibility-a9600516.html

Alexandra Palt is trying to make L’Oréal 100% sustainable L’Oréal is a giant of the beauty world, and now its executive vice president is pushing the company to lead the industry on sustainability and corporate responsibility, writes Andy Martin^[10]

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References

^ "L'Oreal makes changes at the top". Cosmetics Design. 19 July 2019. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Zocchetti, Alexandra (17 June 2019). "Alexandra Palt : "Le développement durable est au cœur de la stratégie de L'Oréal" (Sustainable development is at the heart of L'Oréal's strategy)". Le Figaro. Retrieved 12 March 2021. Juriste de formation, je me suis tournée vers les droits de l'homme en 2001, en intégrant Amnesty International à Berlin. Puis, arrivée en France, j'ai travaillé pour l'IMS-Entreprendre pour la Cité, pour la Halde comme directrice de la promotion de l'égalité, fait du conseil. J'ai rejoint L'Oréal il y a huit ans. (A lawyer by training, I turned to human rights in 2001, when I joined Amnesty International in Berlin. Then, when I arrived in France, I worked for IMS-Entreprendre pour la Cité, for La Halde as director of the promotion of equality, doing consulting. I joined L'Oréal eight years ago.)
^ "Les entreprises pour la Cité". Reseau-Lepc.fr. Retrieved 28 April 2021. Fondé en 1986 par Claude Bébéar et plusieurs grands dirigeants engagés, Les entreprises pour la Cité est un laboratoire de réflexion-action qui mobilise et inspire les entreprises pour agir et générer des transformations sociales...Cette page a été créé initialement pour le site IMS Entreprendre pour la Cité. En 2017, IMS Entreprendre est devenu "Les entreprises pour la Cité". (Founded in 1986 by Claude Bébéar and several great committed leaders, Les entreprises pour la Cité is a think-action laboratory that mobilizes and inspires companies to act and generate social transformations... This page was originally created for the IMS website Entreprendre pour la Cité. In 2017, IMS Entreprendre became "Companies for the City"
^ ^a ^b ^c Fleitour, Gaëlle (16 November 2017). "Quitter une ONG pour rejoindre une entreprise : ils ont franchi le Rubicon (Leaving an NGO to join a business: they crossed the Rubicon_". Usine Nouvelle. Retrieved 12 March 2021. Elle a dirigé la promotion de l'égalité à la Halde, puis fondé en 2008 sa propre agence de conseil en stratégie RSE, Fabric of society. Chez L'Oréal, c'est elle qui conduit le grand plan lancé en 2013 pour « innover, produire et consommer durablement » d'ici à 2020. (She led the promotion of equality at Halde, then founded in 2008 her own CSR strategy consulting agency, Fabric of society. At L'Oréal, it is she who is leading the grand plan launched in 2013 to 'innovate, produce and consume sustainably' by 2020.)
^ ^a ^b Weil, Jennifer (17 April 2020). "L'Oréal's Alexandra Palt Talks Sustainability, COVID-19 and Priorities". Womens Wear Daily. Retrieved 13 March 2021. She became executive vice president for equal opportunity at France's equivalent of the Equal Opportunities and Anti-Discrimination Commission, then was an independent consultant on CSR issues. Palt joined L'Oréal in February 2012 as its first chief sustainability officer, and launched the Sharing Beauty With All sustainability program and its Zero Deforestation policy. In September 2017, she was named chief corporate responsibility officer and also executive president of the Fondation L'Oréal. Palt now sits on the group's executive committee.
^ "Centre collaborates with L'Oréal on sustainability in the cosmetics industry". Stockholm Resilience Centre. 28 October 2019. Retrieved 13 March 2021. In 2013, L'Oréal made a commitment that 100% of their products will have an improved environmental or social profile by end of 2020. To meet this aim, L'Oréal developed its Sustainable Product Optimisation Tool (SPOT) in an earlier collaboration with researchers (Vargas-Gonzalez et al 2019). Inspired by the Planetary Boundaries framework, SPOT is the first of its kind in the beauty industry to measure all the environmental as well as social impacts of a cosmetic product and to identify avenues for improvement. Since 2017, SPOT has been implemented across all L'Oréal's brands.
^ "Women, Leadership and the Post-Pandemic World". New York Times. 17 November 2020. Retrieved 13 March 2021. Alexandra Palt, executive vice president and chief corporate responsibility officer, L'Oréal, and executive vice president of Fondation L'Oréal: 'Today, all over the world in all our societies, gender inequalities are exacerbated by the unprecedented crisis the world is facing. For an inclusive recovery, specific measures should be implemented to support women in all domains.'
^ Weil, Jennifer (25 June 2020). "L'Oréal Sets Sustainability Goals for 2030". Womens Wear Daily. Retrieved 13 March 2021. In 2013, L'Oréal launched its worldwide sustainability program, dubbed Sharing Beauty With All, with goals for 2020 focused on the development of the group's beauty products. Some results of that initiative include that 85 percent of products created or renewed last year had a better environmental and social profile. And by the end of 2019, L'Oréal's solidarity purchasing and inclusion programs helped 90,635 people from disadvantaged communities to find jobs. In 2020, those numbers should reach 95 percent and 98,000, respectively.
^ Charlton, Meg (21 December 2017). "These Ten Women Were Chosen to Be Our Next Climate Change Leaders". Vice. Retrieved 4 April 2021. a program to create a standard sustainability certification for restaurants, finds its mentor in Alexandra Palt, the head of sustainability for L'Oreal, who are also the corporate partner of the initiative. Palt sees the partnership with C40 on this program as a natural fit.
^ Martin, Andy (24 July 2020). "Alexandra Palt is trying to make L'Oréal 100% sustainable". The Independent. Retrieved 13 March 2021. Palt met her husband – who is originally from Brazzaville in Congo and studied at one of the grandes écoles, Sciences Po – when they were both volunteering as mentors in Paris for kids from minority backgrounds who wanted to get into business.
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Living people, French women in business or Austrian women in business?, Austrian businesspeople, Women business executives, 20th-century Austrian businesspeople, 21st-century Austrian businesspeople, 20th-century businesswomen, 21st-century businesswomen

[2019CosDes-1] "L'Oreal makes changes at the top". Cosmetics Design. 19 July 2019. Retrieved 13 March 2021.

[2019Figaro-2] Zocchetti, Alexandra (17 June 2019). "Alexandra Palt : "Le développement durable est au cœur de la stratégie de L'Oréal" (Sustainable development is at the heart of L'Oréal's strategy)". Le Figaro. Retrieved 12 March 2021. Juriste de formation, je me suis tournée vers les droits de l'homme en 2001, en intégrant Amnesty International à Berlin. Puis, arrivée en France, j'ai travaillé pour l'IMS-Entreprendre pour la Cité, pour la Halde comme directrice de la promotion de l'égalité, fait du conseil. J'ai rejoint L'Oréal il y a huit ans. (A lawyer by training, I turned to human rights in 2001, when I joined Amnesty International in Berlin. Then, when I arrived in France, I worked for IMS-Entreprendre pour la Cité, for La Halde as director of the promotion of equality, doing consulting. I joined L'Oréal eight years ago.)

[IMS-Entreprendre-3] "Les entreprises pour la Cité". Reseau-Lepc.fr. Retrieved 28 April 2021. Fondé en 1986 par Claude Bébéar et plusieurs grands dirigeants engagés, Les entreprises pour la Cité est un laboratoire de réflexion-action qui mobilise et inspire les entreprises pour agir et générer des transformations sociales...Cette page a été créé initialement pour le site IMS Entreprendre pour la Cité. En 2017, IMS Entreprendre est devenu "Les entreprises pour la Cité". (Founded in 1986 by Claude Bébéar and several great committed leaders, Les entreprises pour la Cité is a think-action laboratory that mobilizes and inspires companies to act and generate social transformations... This page was originally created for the IMS website Entreprendre pour la Cité. In 2017, IMS Entreprendre became "Companies for the City"

[2017Usine-4] Fleitour, Gaëlle (16 November 2017). "Quitter une ONG pour rejoindre une entreprise : ils ont franchi le Rubicon (Leaving an NGO to join a business: they crossed the Rubicon_". Usine Nouvelle. Retrieved 12 March 2021. Elle a dirigé la promotion de l'égalité à la Halde, puis fondé en 2008 sa propre agence de conseil en stratégie RSE, Fabric of society. Chez L'Oréal, c'est elle qui conduit le grand plan lancé en 2013 pour « innover, produire et consommer durablement » d'ici à 2020. (She led the promotion of equality at Halde, then founded in 2008 her own CSR strategy consulting agency, Fabric of society. At L'Oréal, it is she who is leading the grand plan launched in 2013 to 'innovate, produce and consume sustainably' by 2020.)

[wwd2020_AP-5] Weil, Jennifer (17 April 2020). "L'Oréal's Alexandra Palt Talks Sustainability, COVID-19 and Priorities". Womens Wear Daily. Retrieved 13 March 2021. She became executive vice president for equal opportunity at France's equivalent of the Equal Opportunities and Anti-Discrimination Commission, then was an independent consultant on CSR issues. Palt joined L'Oréal in February 2012 as its first chief sustainability officer, and launched the Sharing Beauty With All sustainability program and its Zero Deforestation policy. In September 2017, she was named chief corporate responsibility officer and also executive president of the Fondation L'Oréal. Palt now sits on the group's executive committee.

[2019Resilience-6] "Centre collaborates with L'Oréal on sustainability in the cosmetics industry". Stockholm Resilience Centre. 28 October 2019. Retrieved 13 March 2021. In 2013, L'Oréal made a commitment that 100% of their products will have an improved environmental or social profile by end of 2020. To meet this aim, L'Oréal developed its Sustainable Product Optimisation Tool (SPOT) in an earlier collaboration with researchers (Vargas-Gonzalez et al 2019). Inspired by the Planetary Boundaries framework, SPOT is the first of its kind in the beauty industry to measure all the environmental as well as social impacts of a cosmetic product and to identify avenues for improvement. Since 2017, SPOT has been implemented across all L'Oréal's brands.

[NYT2020-7] "Women, Leadership and the Post-Pandemic World". New York Times. 17 November 2020. Retrieved 13 March 2021. Alexandra Palt, executive vice president and chief corporate responsibility officer, L'Oréal, and executive vice president of Fondation L'Oréal: 'Today, all over the world in all our societies, gender inequalities are exacerbated by the unprecedented crisis the world is facing. For an inclusive recovery, specific measures should be implemented to support women in all domains.'

[wwd2020-goals-8] Weil, Jennifer (25 June 2020). "L'Oréal Sets Sustainability Goals for 2030". Womens Wear Daily. Retrieved 13 March 2021. In 2013, L'Oréal launched its worldwide sustainability program, dubbed Sharing Beauty With All, with goals for 2020 focused on the development of the group's beauty products. Some results of that initiative include that 85 percent of products created or renewed last year had a better environmental and social profile. And by the end of 2019, L'Oréal's solidarity purchasing and inclusion programs helped 90,635 people from disadvantaged communities to find jobs. In 2020, those numbers should reach 95 percent and 98,000, respectively.

[2017Vice-9] Charlton, Meg (21 December 2017). "These Ten Women Were Chosen to Be Our Next Climate Change Leaders". Vice. Retrieved 4 April 2021. a program to create a standard sustainability certification for restaurants, finds its mentor in Alexandra Palt, the head of sustainability for L'Oreal, who are also the corporate partner of the initiative. Palt sees the partnership with C40 on this program as a natural fit.

[Independent2020-10] Martin, Andy (24 July 2020). "Alexandra Palt is trying to make L'Oréal 100% sustainable". The Independent. Retrieved 13 March 2021. Palt met her husband – who is originally from Brazzaville in Congo and studied at one of the grandes écoles, Sciences Po – when they were both volunteering as mentors in Paris for kids from minority backgrounds who wanted to get into business.

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