Mary Draves

Mary Draves
Chief Sustainability Officer & VP Environment, Health, and Safety
Dow

Mary is passionate about using science, innovation, and collaboration to drive transformative and sustainable change.  She leads corporate EH&S governance and Dow’s ambitious 2025 Sustainability Goals.  Priority areas include solutions for a circular economy, climate change, sustainable chemistry and incorporating nature into business decisions.  Mary previously led Dow’s groundbreaking Valuing Nature Goal, which represents the first-ever commitment by a corporation to formally factor nature into its business decisions.  Under her leadership, Dow has enjoyed a highly productive collaboration with The Nature Conservancy (TNC).  Together with TNC, she and her team have helped pioneer tools and create a cultural shift that are enabling Dow sites to make a compelling business case for adopting nature-based project solutions. Dow’s aim is to identify $1 billion worth of value to Dow from projects that enhance nature by 2025.  Since launching the goal in 2015, the Company has realized about $275 million of value in nature-based decisions.  Mary joined Dow in 1989 and has held several manufacturing and EH&S leadership roles.