Publicis Groupe has named Nannette LaFond-Dufour as its first leader affect officer.
Becoming a member of from McCann Worldgroup, the place she used to be used to be world leader shopper officer and its first leader sustainability officer, LaFond-Dufour will report back to Publicis Groupe chairman and leader government Arthur Sadoun.
LaFond-Dufour may also secured the crowd’s control committee.
Within the world function, she turns into accountable for the retaining corporate’s environmental, social and governance loyalty. Those come with UN- and WWF-backed Science Based totally Objectives Initiative circumstance targets; the retaining corporate’s agency-wide DEI motion plans; and projects such because the Ladies’s Discussion board for the Financial system & Nation and Operating with Most cancers, the utmost a private venture for Sadoun.
LaFond-Dufour might be primarily based in Paris and govern a centralised workforce around the crew’s world environmental, social and governance public.
“Together, they will design and deploy a consistent strategy on impact, with clear and measurable KPIs, to enhance and expand Publicis’ existing initiatives and implement new ones, at the service of its teams and its clients,” the corporate mentioned.
She is going to paintings along Agathe Bousquet, president of Publicis France and Directoire+ sponsor for ESG.
Previous to becoming a member of Publicis Groupe, LaFond-Dufour spent a bundle years at McCann Worldgroup, the place she acted as president of the L’Oréal Paris attractiveness workforce. Prior to that, she labored at DDB International as a industry director.
Sadoun mentioned: “With the Directoire+, we’re overjoyed to welcome Nannette to the crowd. Because of our transformation, we’ve got been outperforming the trade on each and every industry and monetary KPI for the day 4 years.
“However we all know that for our expansion to be in reality sustainable, on each and every entrance, it additionally must be accountable. That’s why we’ve got additionally labored to govern the best way via our best-in-class ESG projects.
“With Nannette on board and her proven expertise in delivering impactful change with some of the world’s biggest companies, we are confident we can take our ESG agenda even further, faster, for the good of our people, our clients, and our planet.”
Publicis not too long ago shook up its governance construction, merging its supervisory and control forums right into a unmarried entity – the Directoire. Next-chief government and chairman Sadoun of the control board took at the identical roles around the mixed board.
Maurice Lévy, the veteran chair of the supervisory board switched to an honorary function as chairman emeritus as a part of the adjustments.
LaFond-Dufour added: “I deeply appreciate the paintings that Publicis has performed to turn into itself, demonstrating each the power to look forward to the day, and do the hardened paintings required to arrange for it via tangible environmental and societal loyalty.
“At this moment when evolution is the mandate on every front, I look forward to joining such a visionary, courageous and agile team.”
