Geneviève Hilton

Geneviève Hilton has worked in corporate affairs and sustainability in the Asia Pacific region since 1994. At Lenovo, she led the communications functions in Asia Pacific and supported the company’s ESG transformation strategy. Before Lenovo, she was Head of External Communications and Corporate Citizenship at BASF for 11 years. There, she handled stakeholder engagement, corporate citizenship (non-profit activities), sustainability reporting, crisis readiness, online communications, media relations, corporate publications, and channel management, for 18 markets in the Asia Pacific region.

Prior to joining BASF, she was Senior Vice President, Client Services, at Ketchum Greater China, and held a variety of agency roles in Hong Kong and Vietnam. Before this, she founded All Rivers Public Relations, a communications consultancy which later became part of Ketchum as well as relaunching PUBCOM Public Relations in Hanoi. She chaired the CSR and ESG committees of the American Chamber of Commerce of Hong Kong, and Vice President, Professional Development for the Hong Kong Chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators. She is the recipient of the IABC Award of Excellence for contribution to the communications profession in Asia Pacific, winner of the SABRE award for best in-house communications team in Asia Pacific, and has been a GCCC accredited Strategic Communications Management Professional since 2017.

Geneviève left the corporate world in 2022 to focus on community and creative pursuits. She is currently providing pro-bono professional consultation and services to non-profit organizations in Hong Kong and Portugal, while her science fiction stories have appeared in literary magazines and anthologies around the world. She is the author, with Steve Willis, of Fairhaven – A Novel of Climate Optimism and Defying Futility – The Fairhaven Stories (Habitat Press UK).

Geneviève holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University.