Ariane is an expert on business and human rights. Before becoming a Swiss diplomat, she led impact assessments around the globe for a multinational corporation. While at the foreign ministry, she was posted to Iran and worked on security policy. Since 2020, Ariane has been covering international affairs for multiple magazines.
Bruno is SWI swissinfo.ch’s global democracy correspondent as well as being a long-term foreign correspondent for the Swiss Broadcasting Company, based in Sweden. He is also the Director of International Relations at the Swiss Democracy Foundation, Co-president of the Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy and Co-initiator of the International League of Democracy Cities.
Daisy Jeremani is an award-winning freelance journalist based in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. She worked for The Chronicle, one of the leading local dailies for 15 years and has been freelancing for local and international outlets for the past seven. Her work has appeared in Devex, Semafor, Al Jazeera Impact, Railway Gazette International, Tobacco Reporter, Poultry Site, Cigar Journal, and Topia Magazine among others.
Gülsha Adilji is a Swiss television moderator and writer, born in 1985. She has worked with the youth channel Joiz TV and in 2012 was named Swiss journalist of the year. Today she concentrates full-time on telling stories, and is part of the writing group Atelieer.
I like getting to know people. My interests are politics, refugee issues and national minorities. I was trained as a radio journalist. I previously worked in radio in the Jura region, then at Swissinfo until 2020. Today I work as a freelance journalist.
Priti Patnaik is the founding editor of Geneva Health Files, a journalistic initiative that tracks the governance of global health, reporting on power and politics in international health policy.
Yanina Welp is a Research fellow at the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy, Graduate Institute (Geneva), editorial coordinator at Agenda Pública and co-founder of the Red de Politólogas. Between 2008 and 2018 she was a principal researcher at the Centre for Democracy Studies and co-director of the Zurich Latin American Centre (2016-2019), both at the University of Zurich
