After graduating from HEC in 1988, Elisabeth spent a few years in strategic planning at two advertising agencies before setting up UTOPIES in 1993. She has since been recognised as one of Europe’s leading experts on sustainable development, receiving the Veuve Clicquot Businesswoman of the Year award in 2008 and being made a Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur that same year. She is the author of the bestseller ‘L’entreprise verte’ and several other books. She sits on the Board of Directors of Nature & découvertes, Rabot Dutilleul and several NGOs and foundations (including Unis-Cités and the Tour du Valat Foundation).
Elisabeth’s passions include education, sustainable food, the link between individual and corporate commitment, social entrepreneurship, sustainable innovation and responsible consumption. At the crossroads of these issues, in 2004 she also set up Graines de Changement – a laboratory for innovative projects which is at the origin of Campus Responsables (the first network of grandes écoles and universities committed to sustainable development in France) and Mes Courses pour la Planète (the responsible consumption observatory). It is also behind the report ‘For sustainable consumption’ submitted to the French Minister for Ecology in January 2011.
A fan of all kinds of board sports, Elisabeth travels around Paris on a longboard!
