Marie-Laure Sauty de Chalon

Marie-Laure Sauty de Chalon (born September 17, 1962) is a French businesswoman and feminist. She was CEO of the auFeminin.com group, from 2010 until April 2018. Aufeminin Group is the Europe's leading Internet portal dedicated to women's content. Le Figaro called her company number one in that category. She is considered by Dun and Bradstreet to be a major executive in Europe.

She can be considered a proponent of third-wave feminism, due to her refusal to be "locked in a binary world," She is frequently asked to comment publicly on issues of feminism and diversity. The parent company, Aegis Group plc, is a global marketing communications company headquartered in London, United Kingdom, is capitalized at c. £1.5 billion, and employs almost 16,800 staff in over 80 countries. She was quoted as saying that 2005 was both "best year of my professional life", and "the worst year of my life".

Current work

Sauty de Chalon hopes to gain revenue for auFeminin.com beyond advertising, to selling products online to women. She is expanding its already "a rare example of a European Internet company that is a world leader in its field". a feminist European organization against violence towards working women, she declared her hatred of domestic violence. She wrote to them that: my mission is to hunt down injustices against women in the exercise of my functions, as in the past in the media groups that I ran I always paid the greater attention to gender sensitivity and violence against women.... It is easy to cause a dismissal for failure to sexist remarks or behavior when you are an employer. We must indeed speak to the best companies on the subject. Aufeminin can be a forum on this topic.|Marie-Laure Sauty de Chalon (Google translation as edited)

Other activities LVMH, Independent Member of the Board of Directors

Personal Her father was a lawyer by training, and was a deputy director of Crédit Lyonnais.

Publications Médias, votre public n'est plus dans la salle (Editions Nouveaux débats publics 2007) ("Media, your audience is no longer in the room")