The Board and the Executive Leadership Team oversee sustainability as a core element of overall business and value creation. This is achieved through the integrated efforts of our strategy and research & development teams, Sustainability Leadership Team, and Community of Practice, ensuring cross-functional collaboration.
Our sustainability governance structure
Board of Directors
Board committees
Audit
Governance & Compliance
People & Compensation
Sustainability & Innovation
CEO & ELT
Strategy Global Leadership
Cross-functional Sustainability Leadership Team and Community of Practice
Our strategic assessment process
Corteva enterprise risk management process
Dynamic materiality process
Corteva’s focus areas
Biodiversity
Sustainable Innovation
Climate
Board of Directors
The Board of Directors oversees risks related to business strategy execution and reputation, including risks related to sustainability matters, and to achieving sustainability and financial targets. It assigns the oversight of certain sustainability risks to specific Board committees, which provide regular report-outs and make recommendations to the Board.
Sustainability and Innovation (S&I) Committee
The S&I Committee has primary oversight responsibility for sustainability-related goals and strategy related to GHG emissions, biodiversity, and Sustainable Innovation. It oversees performance toward sustainability commitments and other sustainability-related matters, and provides oversight of the risks related to our innovation pipeline.
Audit Committee
The Audit Committee provides oversight of the Company’s financial and cybersecurity risks and internal controls over financial reporting.
People and Compensation Committee
The People and Compensation Committee provides oversight of the Company’s human capital management practices. This committee has included a sustainability modifier within our executives' short-term incentive compensation program for 2025. The committee holistically evaluates our sustainability performance, including the success of our innovation pipeline and environmental performance, to determine whether a positive or negative modification to the executives' short-term incentive compensation is appropriate.
Governance and Compliance Committee
The Governance and Compliance Committee retains oversight of our ethics, compliance, and safety programs, which reinforce our values. It provides oversight for enterprise risk management by discussing our major risk and reputational exposures and the steps management has taken to monitor and control such exposures, including risk assessment and risk management policies.
Executive leadership
On a regular basis, usually monthly, the Executive Leadership Team meets to discuss various sustainability matters, including environmental, social, regulatory, safety, and economic factors that could potentially impact the Company’s strategic progress or performance.
The Executive Leadership Team is responsible for driving efforts to advance our sustainability programs and deliver on our goals and aspirations. For some sustainability topics, working groups are assembled to achieve Corteva’s objectives.
Chuck Magro
Chief Executive Officer
Our CEO, Chuck Magro, is responsible for the establishment and execution of our business strategy, which drives the Company’s sustainability priorities. Each member of the Executive Leadership Team reports to the CEO and contributes to our sustainability progress, directly or through their teams, and, as appropriate, provides sustainability-related updates to the Board or its committees and risk management policies.
The Executive Leadership Team
David Johnson
Executive VP, Chief Financial Officer
Oversees financial reporting and controls, including our response to sustainability reporting mandates. He also oversees information technology, including the officers responsible for cybersecurity.
Sam Eathington
Executive VP, Chief Technology and Digital Officer
Oversees global R&D and Decision Science. In this role, his team is responsible for Sustainable Innovation and Biodiversity focus area initiatives.
Robert King
Executive VP, Crop Protection Business Unit
Oversees chemical-related manufacturing and supply chains. In this role, his team is responsible for identifying and implementing crop protection-related operational sustainability, in addition to direct, upstream, and downstream GHG emission reductions.
Judd O'Connor
Executive VP, Seed Business Unit
Oversees seed-related production and supply chains. In this role, his team is responsible for identifying and implementing seed-related operational sustainability.
Brook Cunningham
Senior VP of Corteva and President, Corteva Asia Pacific
Oversees matters related to our commercial objectives in Asia Pacific, and Corteva's global Investment Steering Committee, which oversees all external investments.
Cornel Fuerer
Senior VP, Strategic Advisor
Oversees Corteva’s planned separation into two publicly traded companies in the second half of 2026.
Audrey Grimm
Senior VP, Chief People Officer
Oversees sustainability matters related to human capital management and employee engagement initiatives.
Jennifer Johnson
Senior VP, Chief Legal and Public Affairs Officer and Corporate Secretary
Oversees legal, compliance, public affairs, and communications organizations. In this role, she is responsible for governance and ethics matters.
Jeff Rudolph
Senior VP, Chief Strategy Officer
Oversees strategy matters related to our sustainability objectives. In this role, he is responsible for the Company’s annual sustainability report and supporting sustainability-related stakeholder engagement.