Healthcare

Christine leads BSR’s Business Transformation team, helping companies to manage sustainability throughout their business and across their supply chains and to develop resilient business strategies that leverage insights from BSR’s Sustainable Futures Lab.

She works with companies across sectors and geographies to structure a sustainability management approach that mitigates risk and captures emerging opportunities, creating strategic advantage for their businesses, while contributing to a more just, sustainable world. Christine also co-leads engagement with boards of directors to promote effective board governance and leadership ambition on sustainability. 

She brings over 20 years of experience in leading brand, sustainability, public affairs, communications, and reputation management with multinational corporations at the executive leadership level. This also includes overseeing corporate relations with external stakeholders, such as the World Economic Forum, the UN, European institutions, and investors.

Previously, Christine was Head of Brand Strategy at Nokia. She has also held major roles at Alcatel-Lucent and Alcatel, leading Brand and Corporate Sustainability and European Affairs. Christine has also served on various boards, including as a chair of the Telecoms Industry Dialogue on human rights, as an advisory board member of Reuters Events Sustainability, as a member of the Alcatel-Lucent Foundation, and on the European Internet Foundation.

Christine holds a MA in History and a BA in History and International Politics from the University of Ottawa. She completed the Management Acceleration Program (MAP) at INSEAD, and she achieved the ESG Competent Boards Certificate and Global Competent Boards Designation (2021). She speaks English, French, Spanish, and Italian.

Rachel leads BSR’s Consumer Sectors team in the US, focusing on topics related to business transformation. She helps companies across a range of consumer-facing industries leverage sustainability insights and tools to drive innovation, create impact and build resilience in the face of market turbulence and disruptive global trends.

For the past 20 years, Rachel has worked at the intersection of sustainability and innovation, business development, advocacy, and cross-sectoral partnerships in the US, Europe and Asia. She has held leadership positions at the American Chamber of Commerce to the EU, the Clinton Global Initiative, the Hong Kong-based Climate Change Business Forum, and BASF. Rachel has advised the US and allied governments on the impacts of climate change on national security and has created sustainability crisis simulations for government, business and academic use.

Rachel has a BA from Tufts, a Masters in Public Policy from the School of Public Policy, University of Maryland and an MBA from Kellogg, Northwestern University.

Meghan supports BSR’s member companies within the consumer products sector. She focuses on healthcare and food, beverage, and agriculture.

Prior to joining BSR, Meghan worked in pharmaceutical advertising, managing strategic marketing activities for new-to-market products, emerging therapies, and well-established treatments for various medical issues. She also consulted for the Food and Agriculture Organization on strategic messaging and communications for programs focused on bolstering sustainability and practical solutions in food value chains via the reduction of food loss and waste. She also interned at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, where she focused on climate mitigation and reporting transparency.

Meghan has an Executive Master in Sustainability Leadership (EMSL) from Arizona State University and a BA in Communications (Journalism) from Temple University. She is a US Green Building Council-certified TRUE Zero Waste Advisor and has a Sustainable Resource Management Certification, accredited by the National Standards Board of the National Recycling Coalition.

After nine years of working with BSR members to advance sustainability strategies, Cecile now leads BSR’s global People and Culture team. In this role, Cecile leads all processes related to building and retaining an exceptional global team of sustainable business experts. She works with the People and Culture team on attracting and hiring the best and brightest talents and making BSR a place where people grow, develop, and thrive in our international mindset and culture as well as have an impact on the world.

Cecile continues to stay close to BSR’s mission and impacts through limited and targeted projects and member engagement, mostly in the healthcare sector. 

Prior to joining BSR, Cecile served as deputy director for SGS Sustainability Services. Her work involved developing service offerings for sustainable supply chains. Before that, she was executive director of SFSTP, one of the largest associations of industrial pharmacists in Europe. She started her career in the chemicals industry, working for Clariant in the UK and Canada.

Cecile holds a MBA from Toronto Metropolitan University, a BSc in Chemistry and Business Administration from Kingston University London, and a Life Science degree from University of Angers. She speaks French and English.