Maya Colombani has been appointed Chief Sustainability and Human Rights Officer of L’Oréal Canada in April 2022. With an international career of over 20 years at L’Oréal, Maya is distinguished by a rich and comprehensive professional background. She began her career in France, working for leading design and advertising agencies such as Dragon Rouge, Publicis, and Euro RSCG. She then joined L’Oréal’s Professional Products division in 2001. There, she held positions in operational marketing and DMI (Direction Marketing International), for Kérastase and L’Oréal Professionnel. She carried out assignments in India and in the Western Europe zone, before moving to Brazil in June 2010 where she worked in marketing functions. Since the end of 2016, she has been Director of Sustainable Development for Brazil.
In this role, she profoundly transformed L’Oréal Brazil’s approach to sustainable development and human rights. She has implemented actions that inspired the L’Oréal Group and positioned L’Oréal Brazil as a national benchmark. L’Oréal Brazil is indeed regularly cited as an example and is used to fuel new reflections, both on environmental issues and on human rights issues, as well as with respect to the relations with the indigenous people of Brazil.
Her projects have been rewarded by the best rankings such as Guia Exame 2017/2018/2019; recognized as the best company in climate change as well as biodiversity management; and has received the WEP gold award 2021 on women empowerment supported by ONU Women and Compact Global.
In 2022, thanks to her strong inclusive social programs for indigenous and communities, the GLOBO recognized L’Oréal Brazil as “The company that makes the difference in term of inclusion and diversity.”
In Canada, Maya Colombani is driving L’Oréal Canada’s sustainability transformation carried out within the framework of “L’Oréal For the Future.” Among strategic actions, she focused on decarbonation actions of the full value chain with 100% of renewable energy of all our site but also promoting circular economy practices as the ICIONRECYCLE CERTIFICATION. Building a more responsible consumption by promoting the refills categories and more transparency towards consumers is also at the center of her actions.
Besides, Maya also worked on the implementation of different cleantech partnership with start-up as Evoco, water management and scaling up social impact with committed brands, fighting for example, any type of discrimination, street harassment and supporting families affected by cancer.
Beyond the business transformation, she also commits to nature regeneration for forests as well as oceans, in the northwest territories with Tree Canada and British Colombia. All these projects are built hands in hands with Indigenous communities, merging the best of scientific knowledge with traditional ancestral wisdoms.
Over the last year, as human right chief officer, Maya has been honored and grateful to work, hand in hand, with First Nations Executive Education propelled by Executive Education HEC Montréal a business school BY and FOR First Nations offering short qualifying university training programs in communities, online and in Montreal.
Thanks to these impactful projects in Canada, earned her the prestigious “Canada’s Clean 50” award that “recognized the most impactful 50 individual LEADERs that have demonstrated measurable leadership in fighting climate change and helping Canada transition to a low-carbon economy.”
In April 2024, the French CCI in Canada also rewarded its team with the Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) Award, for all the initiatives implemented in sustainable development and social responsibility at L’Oréal Canada.
In July 2024, Maya Colombani received the Top 25 ESG leadership 2024 award in Calgary, for her Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) practices.
Another important achievement for her is being named President of the “Positive Impact Club” of the French CCI in Canada, to have a positive impact on our society and reinforce the bond between France and Canada.
Maya graduated from Reims Business School and completed an MBA semester of International Business Strategy in Victoria University, Australia. She now lives in Montreal, Québec, Canada with her family.
