• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Roberta Barbieri

PepsiCo

Vice President for Global Sustainability

Roberta Barbieri is PepsiCo’s Vice President for Global Sustainability with over 20 years of experience in environmental sustainability. In her role with PepsiCo, Roberta is responsible for executing PepsiCo’s Performance with Purpose sustainability strategy, with specific responsibility for integration of sustainability into core business processes, and for delivery of PepsiCo’s goals on Climate, Water Stewardship, Waste, and Sustainable Packaging. Before joining PepsiCo, Roberta worked for Diageo, where she held the position of Global Environmental Director and served as the principal architect of Diageo's Global Environmental Sustainability strategy. Roberta currently serves on the steering committees of the 2030 Water Resources Group and the World Economic Forum’s Global Plastics Action Partnership. She is past chair of the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable’s Water Working Group and has served on the steering committee for the CEO Water Mandate. Roberta holds an MS in Environmental Engineering and an MS in Environmental Science from the University of New Haven, as well as a BS in Environmental Conservation and International Studies from the University of New Hampshire. Her work has been featured in Forbes, Ceres, Business Green, the World Bank Group, Environmental Leader, Sustainable Brands, panels for World Water Tech North America, GreenBiz, and more.

Sessions With Roberta Barbieri

Monday, 11 March

  • 07:30pm - 09:00pm (CST) / -

    Plastics Sustainability: Meeting the challenge
    Panel Oil Climate/Environment/Sustainability

    Plastics sustainability is one of the top priorities and a potential disruptor for the chemical industry. Much work remains to develop sustainable business models and behavioral models to address this systemic issue with transformation of the linear approach to plastics into a circular infrastructure. The trend among plastics producers is toward a focus on waste management for societal and business benefit. How will this develop? This session will discuss the drivers and actions to ensure sustainability from a policy perspective, who should take responsibility across the value chain, and how technology and infrastructure development affect the outcome.