Claire Gillissen-Duval

Director of EMEA Corporate Social Responsibility & Africa Code Week Global Lead
SAP

In her role as Director of EMEA Corporate Social Responsibility at SAP, Claire builds and nurtures strategic partnerships that leverage talent, technology and capital to help the world run better and improve people’s lives. She has supported hundreds of nonprofits over the past 20 years with a sharp focus on youth empowerment, accountable grant making and philanthropy diversity.

Claire is also the founder and global lead of SAP Africa Code Week, a C4F Davos award-winning initiative that has introduced coding skills to millions of youth across 54 African countries since 2015. In September 2016, she was a keynote speaker on the MIT stage in Cambridge where she also received the Judges' Choice Award from the MIT Inclusive Innovation Competition. In February 2017, she received the ‘International Philanthropist of the Year’ award from the Community Foundation for Ireland on behalf of SAP. Her most recent speaking engagements include a UNESCO roundtable on the International Day for the Universal Access to Information as well as an EQUALS Global Partnership panel addressing gender inequalities in tech during EDD 2019 in Brussels.

Claire holds a Master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Orleans, France.

Director of EMEA Corporate Social Responsibility & Africa Code Week Global Lead
SAP

In her role as Director of EMEA Corporate Social Responsibility at SAP, Claire builds and nurtures strategic partnerships that leverage talent, technology and capital to help the world run better and improve people’s lives. She has supported hundreds of nonprofits over the past 20 years with a sharp focus on youth empowerment, accountable grant making and philanthropy diversity.

Claire is also the founder and global lead of SAP Africa Code Week, a C4F Davos award-winning initiative that has introduced coding skills to millions of youth across 54 African countries since 2015. In September 2016, she was a keynote speaker on the MIT stage in Cambridge where she also received the Judges' Choice Award from the MIT Inclusive Innovation Competition. In February 2017, she received the ‘International Philanthropist of the Year’ award from the Community Foundation for Ireland on behalf of SAP. Her most recent speaking engagements include a UNESCO roundtable on the International Day for the Universal Access to Information as well as an EQUALS Global Partnership panel addressing gender inequalities in tech during EDD 2019 in Brussels.

Claire holds a Master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Orleans, France.