Schneider Electric promotes VP of strategy for suddenly vacated CSO role
Esther Finidori replaces Chris Leong, who moves to Ecolab after just six months in the job. The post Schneider Electric promotes VP of strategy for suddenly vacated CSO role appeared first on Trellis.
Schneider Electric has a new chief sustainability officer, just six months after her predecessor was appointed to the position.
Incoming CSO Esther Finidori previously served as a vice president for strategy at Schneider Electric, which is based in France. She replaces Hong Kong-based Chris Leong, who moved to the water treatment company Ecolab to become chief marketing and innovation officer.
Schneider Electric did not immediately reply to a request for comment on the timing of Leong’s departure.
Success in sight
Finidori inherits a sustainability operation that has made strong progress on key targets. Schneider Electric’s emissions goals, which have been validated by the Science Based Targets initiative, require the company to reduce Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 76 percent by 2030, relative to a 2021 baseline. For Scope 3, which constitutes 99 percent of the baseline total, it’s shooting for a 25 percent reduction over the same time frame. According to the company’s data for 2024, Scope 1 and 2 emissions fell by 51 percent and Scope 3 by 19 percent.
Finidori joined Schneider in 2016 as a director of sustainable supply chain and carbon dioxide strategy, before progressing to become a vice president for environment in 2021. She was previously a manager at Carbon 4, a climate consultancy, and holds masters in technology policy and industrial engineering, respectively, from the University of Cambridge and the CentraleSupélec, near Paris.
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