Monique Pellegrino is a French citizen, graduated from ENSAT (National School in Agronomy) with a five years engineering degree specialized in Food Science and processing.

She has 25 years of experience in driving sustainable growth and competitiveness by leading diverse functions in international environments: Quality & Food Safety, Environment, Regulatory Affairs, R&D, Innovation and strategic programs. Parallelly to an extensive experience in industry, she conducted AFAQ/AFNOR certification audits for 10 years, developing knowledge of manufacturing and retails processes across all food sectors. She has been involved in different international organizations, as member of boards or scientific committees.

After a first experience of research in Molecular Biology at the USDA of Berkeley in California, she joined Coca-Cola Company in 1992 where she successively led Quality & Environment and Process Operations.

In 1998, she entered Lesaffre Group as Quality, Environment & regulatory affairs Director before being appointed Group Performance Enhancement Program Officer in 2003. She moved to the position of Group Innovation Director in 2005 and became R&D and Innovation Director in 2008.

Monique joined Danone in 2010 as Functional brands / Innovation R&D Director and was then appointed Science & Technology Director in 2012.

In May 2016, Monique was nominated Strategic Transformation Director, acting as the catalyst of strategic initiatives towards Danone 2020 ambition and leading the integration of White Wave for the R&D function.

She was nominated Vice President Danone Food Safety Center in November 2017 and was then promoted Vice President, Chief Food safety Officer in March 2019. with the mission to drive the Food Safety governance further up in all Danone businesses, ensuring scientific backbone of the policy and excellence in execution.