Kathleen Dunlop

Chief Marketing Officer for Beauty & Wellbeing North America Unilever

Kathleen Dunlop is the Chief Marketing Officer for Unilever’s Beauty & Wellbeing brands in North America. Kathleen oversees the inspirational and impactful marketing campaigns from brands like Dove, TRESemmé, SheaMoisture, and Vaseline. With a 25-year tenure at Unilever, she has been instrumental in building some of the world’s most beloved global brands across Beauty & Wellbeing, Personal Care, and Home Care.

Kathleen began her Unilever career as an MBA graduate in the U.S., working on iconic brands like Q-Tips and Dove skin cleansing. From 2003 to 2013, she lived and worked in the U.K. and China, managing major homecare brands such as Surf and Dirt is Good. In 2014, she returned to the U.S. to lead the Vaseline brand. As the Global Brand VP of Vaseline from 2018 to 2023, she oversaw five years of continuous growth, elevating the brand into the €1 billion club in 2023. She also enhanced the brand’s social impact through the Vaseline Healing Project, a global partnership with Direct Relief that has provided critical skin health care to over a million people in 60+ countries annually since 2015.

Kathleen believes that there is no such thing as business as usual anymore. With everyday products used by millions of people, Unilever has an enormous opportunity and responsibility to help address some of the world’s global challenges. Unilever’s Growth Action Plan 2030 aims to lead the next era of sustainability by focusing on climate, nature, plastics, and livelihoods.

Kathleen holds an MBA from The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and both Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in International Relations from Stanford University. Before joining Unilever, she worked with The Rockefeller Brothers Fund in Poland, managing economic development programs in Eastern Europe. Her career has taken her across the globe, with professional experiences in the United States, Great Britain, Poland, and China.