Sustainability might be a trendy buzzword today, but this was not the case a decade ago when Farizan d’Avezac De Moran set up GreenA Consultants, a consultancy that advises companies on how to meet their sustainability goals.
In the early 2000s, the trained engineer had been working at a specialist engineering company in Singapore, where she was the only female partner among the other four partners, who were men. She refuses to reveal the name of the company, but notes that she faced discrimination because of her gender. Despite working just as hard, she was paid less than her male counterparts because they had the perception that she had financial security as she was married to an expat.
While Farizan did marry into money, (her husband is a French aristocrat from Bordeaux), she has always been driven to succeed on her own terms.
