Valentina Vecchio
Valentina Vecchio is The Boeing Company Sustainability Policy & Risk Manager Senior Manager. In this role, Vecchio leads the strategy and risk profile of global policies impacting the company ranging across climate, environmental and chemical regulations. Prior to this role, Vecchio maximised the effectiveness of the Global Enterprise Sustainability leadership team as their Policy & Business Integration Senior Manager. Before that, Vecchio was on the Boeing Global Sustainability Policy & Partnerships team where she led Boeing’s strategy and engagement, collaborating with internal and external stakeholders.
Vecchio joined Boeing in September 2018 in Brussels, Belgium and was responsible for representing the enterprise’s interests with European institutions. In this role, she also worked across the UK and the EU to manage an integrated sustainability strategy and advance regional business goals. Since 2021, Vecchio has been on the Board of Directors of the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials, a global forum to shape the development of renewable fuel sustainability standards. In June 2023, Vecchio was appointed RSB Board vice-chair. Vecchio is also a member of the Royal Aeronautical Society and the International Aerospace Women’s Association.
Vecchio is passionate about developing the next generation of talent and, after graduating from the Leadership Next (LX) program in 2023, she joined the LX Alumni Association where she serves as Chair, curating resources and employee engagement opportunities. Vecchio is a lawyer by education. She received her LL.M. in International and European Union Law from the University of Trento (Italy) and she specialised in aviation law pursuing the Advanced LL.M. in Air & Space Law at Leiden University (The Netherlands). She is the author of several publications in reputed aerospace law journals and received European and international prizes awarded by the European Air Law Association, Women in Aerospace Europe, and the International Institute of Space Law. In her spare time, Vecchio enjoys bouldering, watercolour painting and learning Hindi with her husband. She is based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
