Margot Fransen

UnileverGeneral Counsel Sustainability| General Counsel Oral Care| Head of Legal NL

Appointed as Unilever’s Global General Counsel Sustainability | Global Counsel Oral Care in July 2023. The GC Sustainability role is pivotal in aligning Unilever’s operations with its sustainability goals: aiming to build a business that can deliver value for a range of stakeholders over the long-term in the right way. Guiding the organization’s legal strategies and policies to ensure governance, transparency and compliance with sustainability regulations and social responsibility, including stakeholder management. Recent highlights: introduction of Climate Transition Action Plan 2024, ensuring accurate non-financial reporting, upholding responsible marketing, supply chain due diligence and emerging ESG legislation and trends impacting business operations. Until 1 August 2023 Margot was Chief Counsel Executive Compensation and Secretary to the Compensation Committee for Unilever Plc. In that capacity she was responsible for Executive Compensation, Incentive Plans, wider HR and Corporate matters, including Stakeholder Management around these topics. Dutch qualified lawyer with 25+ years of expertise knowledge in ESG, Corporate Governance, Board Matters, Stakeholder Management, Compliance, Executive Compensation and Global Marketing in FMCG. She has experience working in private practice advising listed corporate clients & VC from a range of industries and jurisdictions re wider Capital Markets matters.