As Chief Human Relations Officer for L’Oréal, Jean-Claude Le Grand has spent his entire career in Human Resources. He joined L’Oréal in 1996 where he was successively Business HR Director, followed by Country and then Divisional HR Director, before being appointed Group Global Recruitment Director. From 2012 to 2018, he was Head of International Development for HR and Corporate Diversity Director. Committed to diversity, parity and inclusion from an early stage, he created L’Oréal’s Global Diversity Department in 2006. He was appointed a member of the Committee for the Measurement of Diversity and the Fight against Discrimination (COMEDD), and a member of the High Council of Equality between men and women (HCE). In 2018 he joined Korn Ferry’s Advisory Board and in 2020 the Board of Directors for the FNEGE. A graduate of the Institute of Political Studies of Aix-en-Provence, he also holds a postgraduate diploma in HR from Paris Dauphine. In 2012 he was awarded the Legion of Honour.
