Posted on March, 02 2015
Catherine Klein
Managing Director, Valorplast
Catherine Klein initially holds a Master Degree of the Paris ISC Business School. Then, in the early 1990s, she spent a year at the Konstanz University where she studied international business relations. Back to France, she discovered environmental management at Eco-Conseil/ENSAIS where, in 1994, she became one of the very first graduates in Sustainable development and Eco-counselling in the country. She has been working with VALORPLAST since the very set-up of the household plastic packaging recycling organization. That is for 20 years now. She started her career as regional delegate in Northern France and then managed Valorplast’s regional delegates team. During the last ten years, as project manager, she held various responsibilities, be it in communications and public affairs or as technical expert. In April 2014, she was appointed Managing Director of VALORPLAST. From 2008 to 2014, she experienced "political real life” as Deputy Mayor in charge of sustainable development, in her 30 000 inhabitants town, in the Paris area.