• Function: VP Human Rights (L’Oréal)
• Company: L’Oreal

Before joining L’Oréal, Julie Vallat worked from 2000 as Legal Counsel for not-for-profit organisations such as “Medecins du Monde” against human trafficking. She then served from 2004 as Legal Counsel for the National French Department of Justice, in charge of implementing International Treaties, including Hague conventions against child abduction, and European conventions related to legal aid. From 2006, she was a Barrister in Paris, in the law firm Veil Jourde and partners, specialising in Human Rights and International Law, in particular in Myanmar. During ten years, from 2009 to 2019, Julie Vallat was Head of Human Rights at Total, within the Corporate Legal Department / Compliance & Social Responsibility Division. Expert in international law, she managed a team of lawyers to address human rights and socio-environmental risks in complex environments across the world, drawing up innovative solutions to enabling compliance with UN standards.

In June 2019, she joined L’Oréal as VP Human Rights. She is leading within the Sustainability team a network of Human Rights correspondents in various markets all over the world where L’Oréal operates, to map salient human rights issues and emerging topics, and to implement appropriate remediation plans in operations and value chains.