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Ilham Kadri

Chief Executive Officer, Solvay
Ilham Kadri

Ilham Kadri is CEO of Solvay, a materials, chemicals and solutions company. She is a world citizen with a rich professional experience across a variety of industries in four continents and with leading industrial multinationals, including Shell, UCB, Huntsman, Dow Chemical and Sealed Air. Prior to Solvay, Ilham Kadri was CEO and President of Diversey in the United States.

She holds a degree in chemical engineering from the École européenne de chimie, polymères et matériaux in Strasbourg and a PhD in macromolecular physico-chemistry from Strasbourg’s Louis Pasteur University.