Doug Baillie

Doug Baillie is the current Director at Huhtamaki. Doug was previously with Unilever for almost six years, serving as President Western Europe and Group Vice President South Asia and CEO of Hindustan Unilever Ltd.

In 2008, Doug was asked to join the Unilever Executive and run Western Europe. This role covered the full Western European geography with responsibility for delivering overall business performance. The region was mid way through significant restructuring which touched almost every aspect of the business including the bedding down of the One Unilever organisation in all geographies and significant supply chain restructuring and outsourcing.Through Doug's three years in the role, they brought forward and completed the planned program and got the business back to competitive growth. Importantly, very good progress was made in step changing employee engagement and getting back the winning spirit.Through this period, Doug also led the acquisition of Sara Lee with the European Competition Commission and then oversaw the very successful integration into Unilever.

In 2006, Doug became Group Vice President South Asia and CEO of Hindustan Unilever Ltd, based in Mumbai. In this role they had P&L responsibility for a large part of Unilever's developing markets business, overseeing a wide range of categories including soaps, detergents, personal products, ice cream, packaged foods and water purifiers.

Doug Baillie graduated from the University of Natal with a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce.