Executive Leadership

Fabrizio Freda is President and Chief Executive Officer of The Estée Lauder Companies, the global leader in prestige beauty. He joined the company in March 2008 as President and Chief Operating Officer and assumed the CEO position in July 2009. As President and CEO, Mr. Freda is responsible for the company’s overall vision and strategy, financial objectives and investment priorities. He is also a member of the company’s Board of Directors. Under his leadership, the company’s multiple engines of growth have delivered record sales and enabled profitable growth. Mr. Freda is a strategically-focused, financially-disciplined, results-oriented leader with a proven track record in the consumer products industry. Prior to joining The Estée Lauder Companies, Mr. Freda had an impressive 20-year career at Procter & Gamble (P&G), where he was responsible for numerous operating, marketing and strategic efforts spanning different geographies and categories. He held positions of increasing responsibility in the Health and Beauty Care and Global Snacks divisions at P&G, with his last role as President, Global Snacks. Mr. Freda serves on both the Board of Directors of BlackRock Inc. and the Advisory Board of the Global Business Initiative at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. Mr. Freda has been presented with Italy’s Cavaliere del Lavoro by President Sergio Mattarella, and has been named to Barron’s exclusive list of the World’s Best CEO’s.

Stéphane de La Faverie is Executive Group President at The Estée Lauder Companies. As Executive Group President, Stéphane’s portfolio of brands includes Estée Lauder and AERIN Beauty; Jo Malone London; Le Labo; KILIAN PARIS, Editions de Parfums Frederic Malle, Darphin Paris and LAB Series; DECIEM (The Ordinary, NIOD, and Avestan); Too Faced; Smashbox; and GLAMGLOW. In addition to his brand portfolio, Stéphane drives integrated planning and end-to-end business operations enterprise-wide.

Stéphane has an outstanding track record of building and leading global brands, a deep expertise across categories and channels, and a keen understanding of local relevance. Stéphane’s strength as an inclusive and empathic leader and his ability to balance emotional inspiration, authenticity, and strategic insights to drive long-term, sustainable growth, have helped him successfully build his portfolio of brands and nurture a winning leadership team.

Prior to his current role, Stéphane most recently served as Group President, The Estée Lauder Companies, and Global Brand President, Estée Lauder and AERIN Beauty from 2020-2022. In that position, he helped build fragrance as another powerful engine of growth for the company, while also leveraging his skin care expertise to drive differentiation for cult-favorite brands in this category and tapping into the growing men’s skin care market. During his successful leadership of Estée Lauder as Global Brand President from 2016-2022, Stephane helped make the company’s namesake brand one of the world’s most beloved prestige beauty brands, connecting with consumers across all ages, backgrounds and ethnicities.

Peter Jueptner is President, International, a role he assumed in February 2022. As President, International, Peter oversees The Estée Lauder Companies’ international network of Region Presidents and Affiliate General Managers spanning more than 35 affiliates doing business in more than 150+ countries and territories across ELC’s international footprint. In this capacity, Peter leads the strategic growth of ELC’s international organization, overseeing innovation pipelines and strategic third-party relationships with key global retailers and commercial partners to drive the company’s business across established and emerging markets. He also collaborates closely with Group and Brand Presidents and Function leaders to integrate global marketing strategies in international markets.

Prior to this, Peter Jueptner was the President, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), a role he held since 2016. In this position, Peter led the regional strategy, commercial operations and business growth for 17 affiliates, spanning more than 25 countries across developing and emerging markets and covering nearly half of the world’s population. Peter spearheaded growth opportunities and led critical share gain throughout EMEA’s diverse and complex landscape to further establish EMEA as a multi-faceted, effective, and profitable go-to-market region powered by multiple engines of growth across channels, geographies, and brands. Through this effort, Peter evolved the region’s Online team to integrate all Digital capabilities and strengthened EMEA’s emerging market portfolio, currently ELC’s fastest-growing set of emerging markets outside of China.

Peter is well known for designing and implementing breakthrough winning business models that promote a culture of agility and transformation. Prior to being the President of EMEA, Peter worked alongside President and Chief Executive Officer, Fabrizio Freda, in the development and execution of the company’s strategy as Executive Vice President, Strategy and New Business Development. During this time, the company delivered record results including consistent top-line growth ahead of the industry. Additionally, Peter played a key role in strengthening and expanding the company’s diverse portfolio, overseeing six acquisitions.

As a leader, Peter is recognized for his people-first approach and strong commitment to nurturing a culture of diversity, inclusivity, and equity within his teams and across the enterprise. In his career, Peter has been committed to driving transparency and innovation that challenge the status quo.

Prior to joining The Estée Lauder Companies in 2009, Peter served as Senior Vice President, Strategy and Mergers & Acquisitions at Philip Morris International, where he was a key change agent in developing new business strategies to drive organizational effectiveness. Before Philip Morris, he held executive roles at North American grocery retailer A&P, and Campbell Soup Company. He started his career with the Boston Consulting Group.

Peter was born in Germany and attended the University in Karlsruhe receiving an undergraduate degree in Information Technology and Industrial Engineering. Peter received his MBA, in Marketing and Finance, in the United States from Vanderbilt University. He has three children and is based in New York City.

Ronald S. Lauder is the younger son of Estée and Joseph Lauder and, like his brother, Leonard, learned the family business at the dinner table. He formally joined the company in 1964, beginning his career in the Oevel, Belgium factory. His executive roles began when he became General Manager of Clinique Laboratories in 1985, and he has served as Chairman since 1994. Mr. Lauder was instrumental in the creation of Prescriptives and served as Chairman of Estee Lauder International from 1992 to 2002. He also served as a member of The Estée Lauder Companies’ Board of Directors from 1968 to 1986 and 1988 to 2009. He was re-elected to the Board in November 2016.

In 1983, Mr. Lauder took a leave from The Estée Lauder Companies to serve in the U.S. Pentagon as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Affairs. In 1986, he was appointed Ambassador to Austria by President Ronald Reagan. Upon his return from Vienna in 1987, he established the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation, which now has 35 Jewish schools, kindergartens and summer camps throughout 15 countries in Eastern Europe. Over 7,500 children attend these schools today, and 2,500 children attend the summer camps. Over the years, the Foundation has educated more than 30,000 children in a region that was devoid of Jewish scholarship and has helped build thriving Jewish communities throughout this area. Mr. Lauder also created an International Student Exchange Program between Jewish high school students in New York and Vienna.

In addition to his international interests, Mr. Lauder has long been committed to civic causes and public policy issues at home. A political activist on the state and national level, he was a contender for Mayor of New York City in 1989.

In June 2007, Mr. Lauder was elected to lead the World Jewish Congress, and has served as the organization’s President ever since. In this capacity, Mr. Lauder meets with heads of countries, diplomats and religious leaders, representing Jewish communities in 100 countries around the world.

In February of 1999, Mr. Lauder was elected Chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. His selection by the Conference followed his election in 1997 as President of the Jewish National Fund of which he now serves as Chairman.

Mr. Lauder also serves as Chairman of the International Public Committee of the World Jewish Restitution Organization; Chairman of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation Committee; Chairman of the Jewish Heritage Council; Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Sakharov Archives at Brandeis University; Director of the International Board of Governors of the International Society for Yad Vashem; and is a member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, the Board of Directors of the Jewish Theological Seminary; the Board of Directors of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee; the Board of Trustees of the Anti-Defamation League Foundation; the International Auschwitz Council; and the International Board of Governors of the Tel Aviv Museum.

Mr. Lauder is the Founder and Chairman of the New York based Water Holding Group RWL Water, LLC, an international water company. He is also Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1998, Mr. Lauder co-founded the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation together with his brother, Leonard A. Lauder. They serve together as co-Chairmen of the Foundation.

A renowned art collector, Mr. Lauder has established one of the world’s greatest private collections. He was Chairman of the Museum of Modern Art from 1995 to 2005 and now serves as the museum’s Honorary Chairman. In 2001, he established the Neue Galerie New York, of which he is President. The museum is dedicated to German and Austrian art. Mr. Lauder established the Commission for Art Recovery in 1997, which advocates and fights for the recovery of Nazi looted art.

Among his honors, Mr. Lauder received the International Emmy Directorate Award by the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in 2006. He received, together with his wife, Jo Carole Lauder, the Andrew Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy in 2011, and in 2013, Mr. Lauder was named an Officier de la Légion d’Honneur by President Hollande of France. He was decorated with Germany’s highest honor, the Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit, in 2015 and was awarded the Guardian of Zion prize by the Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies at Bar Ilan University in 2016. Mr. Lauder also received honorary doctoral degrees from Ben Gurion University in 2009 and from Yeshiva University in 2011.

Mr. Lauder was born on February 26, 1944. He graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in New York and holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Business from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He studied at the University of Paris and received a Certificate in International Business from the University of Brussels. Mr. Lauder married Jo Carole Knopf in July of 1967. They have two children and two grandchildren. The family resides in New York City.

Deirdre Stanley is Executive Vice President and General Counsel of The Estée Lauder Companies (ELC). In this capacity, Ms. Stanley leads the company’s legal strategy, practices and policies, and is responsible for ELC’s Legal organization globally. Ms. Stanley is a member of the company’s Executive Leadership Team and she serves as a senior advisor to ELC’s Board of Directors and Executive Management on complex global legal issues and business interests. Before joining The Estée Lauder Companies in 2019, Ms. Stanley served as General Counsel of The Thomson Reuters Corporation and its predecessor company for 17 years. Prior to that time, Ms. Stanley held various legal and senior executive roles at InterActive Corp/USA Networks (now IAC) and the GTE Corporation, a predecessor company to Verizon. She began her career at the law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore. Ms. Stanley has been recognized for her leadership and commitment to diversity by various legal and civic organizations, with awards including Inside Counsel’s Transformative Leadership Award, the National Law Journal’s 20 Most Influential General Counsel recognition, and the Girl Scouts of New York Tribute Dinner awardee. Ms. Stanley serves on the Board of Directors of Consolidated Edison, Inc. She is on the Board of Trustees of the Hospital for Special Surgery and the Dalton School. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Executive Leadership Council. Ms. Stanley holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Policy Studies from Duke University, and J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she was a member of the Harvard Law Review.