Elisabeth Moreno is a French-Cape Verdean, born in Cape Verde in 1970 and moved to France in 1976. She has successively been an entrepreneur, senior executive, consular judge, minister, and businesswoman.
Holding a Master’s degree in Business Law in France and a dual Executive MBA from ESSEC and Mannheim Business School in Germany, she completed her education and professional training at the National School of Magistracy to become a judge.
Elisabeth Moreno has spent the majority of her career in the business world. In 1990, she co-founded a company specializing in thermal rehabilitation, which she directed for about a decade. She then made a transition to the tech world and worked for several multinationals, including France Telecom, Dell, and Lenovo, where she was appointed CEO of the French subsidiary in 2017. Six years later, she joined the Hewlett Packard group to lead the group’s subsidiary for the African continent.
Ms. Moreno has also been a member of the AFD’s Investment Advisory Committee and a member of the ID Invest (Eurazeo) strategic committee.
In July 2020, Elisabeth Moreno was appointed by the French President, Emmanuel Macron, as Minister for Gender Equality, Diversity, and Equal Opportunities in Jean Castex’s government. Under her leadership, the French government passed a law aimed at protecting victims of domestic violence, another to promote women’s economic empowerment, and she successfully introduced a bill to protect victims of conversion therapy. In 2021, she launched a platform to fight discrimination supported by the Human Rights Defender. She also implemented a diversity and inclusion index for French and foreign companies in partnership with non-profit actors.
In November 2022, Elisabeth Moreno created a governance strategy consulting firm – Elisabeth Moreno & Partners – whose mission is to assist public institutions and private companies on social and environmental responsibility issues.
She also joined the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion board of the Sanofi group and committed to impact financing issues with investment funds as an administrator.
In 2023, she founded “8 Mars – La Puissance du Lien.” This association aims to strengthen human ties (Women & Men, intergenerational and territorial) by transmitting, inspiring, and celebrating women and men around institutional, associative actors, and companies.
In June 2023, she was elected President of the “Femmes@Numérique” Foundation, which works to accelerate the feminization in digital professions.