Virginie Mahin leads social sustainability and stakeholder engagement for Mondelēz International, the global snacking company behind chocolate and biscuit brands such as Milka, Cadbury, Oreo and LU. As chair of the company’s cross-functional Human Rights Working Group, she steers the company’s approach to human rights due diligence and embedding of the UN Guiding Principles into the company’s systems and practices. Within the company’s sustainable cocoa program, Cocoa Life, she leads the child protection approach and efforts to holistically address child labor and its root causes within the cocoa growing communities that make up the company’s supply chain.
The event aims to share knowledge and exchange best practices on how to eliminate child labour in key value chain sectors exposed to increasingly global challenges.