Former AfDB Director for Gender, Vanessa Moungar, is new head of diversity & inclusion at LVMH
Vanessa Moungar, hitherto Director for Gender, Women & Civil Society at the African Development Bank (AfDB) has been appointed head of diversity and inclusion at the leading luxury brands group LVMH.
In her new role, Vanessa will help build a network of diversity and inclusion leaders in different regions; coordinate efforts at the group’s various brands, as well as oversee the global coordination of work on the issue of diversity.
Vanessa will work closely with all LVMH’s stakeholders and will build on a network of well-established Diversity and Inclusion (D & I) leaders in the regions, as well as strong initiatives in our Maisons, to oversee the global coordination of all D & I actions. Diversity and Inclusion are at the core of LVMH’s human resources priorities, the brand announced in a short statement.
She will work directly under Chantal Gaemperle, executive vice president of human resources and synergies at the luxury group, who said in about her appointment:
“Vanessa will bring her extensive experience to take our ambition in this field to the next level, and accelerate our efforts in continuously shaping a more diverse and inclusive culture at LVMH.” According to a post on Yahoo Finance News.
Since 2017, Vanessa was one of the pioneering women at the top of the AfDB as Director of Gender, Women and Civil Society. In this role, she drove one of the Bank’s key strategies the “Investing in Gender Equality for Africa’s Transformation” policy.
“After four extraordinary years at the African Development Bank Group, I am moving on to the next chapter, immensely grateful for the opportunity I had to serve the continent from such a unique platform…” Vanessa told wrote on her social media timeline.
During her tenure at the AfDB, she also oversaw flagship programmes such as the Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa (AFAWA) – which confronts the gender gap in access to finance, and aims at bridging the financing gap, in order to enhance African women’s entrepreneurial capacity.
She was also at the helm of Fashionomics Africa, an AfDB platform that supports the growth of African “Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs) operating in the creative industries, notably the fashion, film and food value chain.”
While at the Bank Moungar was appointed to French president Emmanuel Macron’s Presidential Council for Africa – formed to advise him on France’s African policy.
Vanessa, 37, who hails from Chad and has French nationality,is the daughter of former Prime Minister of Fidèle Abdelkérim Moungar, and a staunch advocate of advancing the right sand empowerment of women and youth.
