Transat has appointed Chrystal Healy to the newly-created position of Vice-President, Corporate Responsibility.
Healy will be responsible for implementing an ambitious environmental, social and governance (ESG) plan, setting and meeting targets, and ensuring full and transparent reporting.
Her appointment is in line with Transat's commitment to strengthening its leadership in corporate responsibility and to supporting the related priority objectives of its strategic plan, which include managing and reducing the carbon emissions from its flight operations, developing its people and strengthening diversity and inclusion.
"We are extremely pleased to welcome Chrystal to the Transat team," said Christophe Hennebelle, Chief People, Sustainability and Communications Officer.
"Her solid experience in sustainable development with major companies, her vision of integrating this cross-functional role into business strategy, and her leadership and management skills are strengths and sources of innovation and success for our corporate responsibility program, which is important to Transat and its employees, and which is becoming increasingly important to stakeholders, particularly consumers."
Healy brings 15 years of professional experience in corporate responsibility in various industries.
"Transat wants to go even farther," Healy said. "I am very excited about the opportunity to contribute my experience and expertise to helping the company strengthen the corporate responsibility approach it initiated in 2007 and which is one of the main pillars of its strategic plan."
The new Transat VP holds an MBA from John Molson School of Business (Concordia University) in Montreal as well as an MSc and a BASc in biology from McGill University.
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