Delphine Millot has joined the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) in the newly-created role of senior vice president of sustainability.
In this new role, Millot will lead GBTA’s initiatives to create a strong industry focus and public “voice” by working together with members, policymakers and other stakeholders to chart a course toward a more sustainable future for business travel.
Areas of engagement include research and insights; industry and member programmes, policy and advocacy; and education and certification, as well as incubating solutions, tools, and supply chain initiatives to help travel buyers and travel suppliers put sustainability at the forefront of their travel programmes and operations.
Millot will work with the founding partners of GBTA’s newly-created sustainability programme which consists of sponsoring organisations and supporters from across the industry, first unveiled in November at the 2021 GBTA Convention.
Millot will also work with the GBTA Sustainability and Responsibility Committee which over the years has delivered sustainability tools and educational programmes to GBTA members. Among the 2022 initiatives for this established global committee led by current chairperson, Jenny Sabineu, are the relaunching of an updated GBTA Sustainability Toolkit and the development of a global industry standard Supplier Scorecard.
Mark Cuschieri, GBTA board vice president and executive sponsor of GBTA’s Sustainability initiative will also serve as chairperson for the GBTA Sustainability Leadership Council, and Sabineu as its vice-chair.
Millot’s professional background includes experience working between private, public and non-profit sectors, both in Europe and the US.
Most recently, she served as the head of the international public affairs division for Grayling, a global consulting firm specialising in strategic communications and government affairs. Her experience includes managing a European-wide campaign for the Environmental Defense Fund to reduce methane emissions, which are responsible for at least 25 per cent of today’s global warming. This resulted in the Global Methane Pledge adopted at COP26 in November 2021 as the single biggest political effort to date to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
In previous roles, she worked closely with senior-level executives at leading multinationals in multiple business sectors, as well as with associations representing sectoral interests including business aviation, oil and gas, heating and cooling, construction equipment, aluminium, and bioenergy.
