Valérie Lombard is Director of Development & Outreach in Paris; she joined Human Rights Watch in 2007, in the early stages of the establishment of the Paris office.

Previously, she spent 16 years working for leading international advertising agencies, serving well-established French and multinational clients and rising to the position of Deputy General Manager for Young & Rubicam in Paris.

In 2006, after she left advertising, she became Executive Director of the Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society, in charge of Communication and Marketing.

She graduated of HEC in 1986, and is a member of the management team of “HEC au Féminin” within the HEC Alumni Association, the first women’s professional network created in France.