Leanne Geale
Member
Leanne Geale, a Canadian national born in 1965, was elected to the Board of Directors of Â鶹´«Ã½ in 2022.
Background
She holds an LLB from the Université de Montréal, Canada and a BA from the University of Alberta, Canada.
Leanne is currently Executive Vice President and Group General Counsel for Nestlé SA. Before this, she was Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer of Royal Dutch Shell plc from 2014 to 2019, having joined Shell Canada in 2003.
At Shell, she held the positions of Associate General Counsel, Oil Products, Group Legal Services Coordinator, Associate General Counsel, Heavy Oil and Head of Legal Canada.
Prior to joining Shell, Leanne was in-house counsel for international, publicly listed companies Royal Bank of Canada, Rio Algom Ltd and Alcan Aluminium Ltd.
Other activities and functions
- Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of the CEELI Institute, o.p.s., Prague, Czech Republic
- Treasurer of the Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce, Zurich, Switzerland
