Pauline Brown

Pauline Brown is a former chairman of North America for LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton. For more than 25 years, she has helped to acquire, grow, and lead premium global brands. At LVMH, the world's leading luxury goods company, she provides regional leadership for 65 brands in five sectors, including fashion and leather goods, perfumes and cosmetics, watches and jewelry, wines and spirits, and selective retailing. She also serves on the boards of L Capital, a private equity fund backed by LVMH; Moda Operandi, an online luxury retailer; and several LVMH's subsidiaries, including Donna Karan, Marc Jacobs, and Fresh Cosmetics.

Brown introduced a new interdisciplinary course for graduate students at Harvard Business School in 2016 named “The Business of Aesthetics.” In 2018, she wrote "Aesthetic Intelligence: How to Boost It and Use It in Business and Beyond" based on what she learned and the insights she gained from her course.

Earlier in her career, Brown was a managing director at The Carlyle Group, where she led investments in the consumer and retail sectors. Prior to Carlyle, she was the senior vice president of corporate strategy and global business development at Avon Products, responsible for developing the company's long-term growth strategy and driving key components of a major restructuring plan. Brown joined Avon from The Estee Lauder Companies, where she was the vice president of corporate strategy and new business development in charge of all mergers, acquisitions, and licensing efforts.

Brown began her career as a management consultant at Bain & Company. She currently sits on the boards of directors of the National Retail Federation, Parsons School of Design, and the French-American Chamber of Commerce.

Brown earned an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a BA from Dartmouth College and is a member of the executive alumni councils at both schools. She is 2008 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Fellowship's board of overseers as well as the Aspen Global Leadership Network.