Pamela Gill-Alabaster

Pamela Gill Alabaster is a sustainability and business executive who works at the intersection of corporate strategy, reputation, risk and enterprise value. Over a 35-year career, she has built and led sustainability, corporate affairs and marketing functions; managed global brands and P&Ls; advised boards and senior executives; and helped companies navigate significant transformation, regulatory change and emerging enterprise risk.

Her experience includes executive leadership roles at some of the world’s leading consumer companies, including L’Oréal, The Estée Lauder Companies, Revlon, Centric Brands, Mattel, Johnson & Johnson and Kenvue. She has served as SVP of Marketing, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, and Chief Sustainability Officer, with responsibility across brand and P&L leadership, corporate affairs, reputation and sustainability. She has built sustainability functions at four of those companies, most recently establishing Kenvue’s ESG function and Healthy Lives Mission following its spin-off from Johnson & Johnson.

Pamela is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University, where she teaches ESG Corporate Strategy, and serves on the Board of Directors of Pulsora and the Governing Board of the Ethical Supply Chain Program. She also advises early-stage sustainability solution companies as they grow and scale. Her research focuses on the evolving role of the Chief Sustainability Officer, how sustainability becomes integrated into enterprise strategy and decision-making, and its contribution to long-term value creation.

Pamela holds an MS in Sustainability Management from Columbia University, an MBA in Marketing from NYU Stern and a BA in Journalism from Pepperdine University. She also completed the Sustainability Leadership Program in Executive Education at Yale School of Management.