Adam Strobeyko is a PhD researcher in international law at the Graduate Institute and research assistant at the Global Health Centre. His interests include theories of the state, and the interplay between public law and private authority. Tammam Aloudat is managing director of the Global Health Centre at the Graduate Institute in Geneva. He is a Syrian medical doctor and humanitarian worker with twenty years of experience in humanitarian medicine, forced displacement, access to medicines, and epidemic outbreaks.
Alan Mattli has been writing consistently about cinema, in German and in English, both on his own blog FacingTheBitterTruth.com and for a variety of predominantly Swiss publications, such as Frame and Maximum Cinema. He is also writing his doctoral thesis in English Literature.
Alexandra Dufresne teaches U.S. law, international law, and children’s rights at institutions of higher learning in Switzerland. She works with human rights NGOs in Switzerland, Europe, Africa and the United States.
Amandeep Gill is the director of the International Digital Health & AI Research Collaborative (I-DAIR) at the Global Health Centre, Graduate Institute Geneva. Peiling Yap is the chief scientist, and Mehdi Snène the research and development director. Their shared expertise covers public policy, epidemiology, and computer science.
André Anjos is the head of the Biosignal Processing Group at the Idiap Research Institute in Switzerland. He holds a Ph.D. in signal processing, applying neural networks and statistical methods to high-energy physics experiments at CERN.
Jung Park is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at ISG Paris and an Adjunct Researcher at HES-SO/HEG-Genève. Holding a PhD in Engineering, he led technological advancements in global high-tech companies before returning to academia.
Angela Mattli is Joint Managing Director of the Swiss anti-corruption NGO Public Eye with specialist expertise in the commodities, trade and finance sectors.
Anita Winter is the Founder and President of the Gamaraal Foundation in Switzerland. The foundation supports Holocaust survivors and is engaged in Holocaust education.
Annika Erickson-Pearson is a freelance facilitator and community organiser on topics related to peace and conflict. She has worked with nearly a dozen NGOs over the past ten years, including the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform, Conference on World Affairs, Represent.Us, Run for Something, and the Global Campaign for Education. She has a Master’s degree from the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, where her research focused on urban violence and gang desistance programs in the U.S.
Ashley Mantha-Hollands is a research fellow with the International Citizenship Law group at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center and research associate with GLOBALCIT at the European University Institute.
Liav Orgad is the Head of the Project Group “International Citizenship Law” at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Director of the Research Group “Global Citizenship Governance” at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, the European University Institute (EUI), Faculty Member at the Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies, and an Associate Professor at the Lauder School of Government Diplomacy and Strategy, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya.
Beat Nobs served in the Swiss foreign service from 1988 to 2019. Among other roles, he was the assistant state secretary for Asia and the Pacific, the ambassador to New Zealand, the Fiji Islands, Samoa, Tonga, the Cook Islands and Niue, and the ambassador to Canada.
Brigitte Crottaz is a Social Democratic Party member of parliament. Until the end of 2019 she was a member of the parliamentary security policy committee. She is currently a member of the foreign affairs committee.
Cassie Flynn is a strategic advisor on climate change at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). She is head of the UNDP Climate Promise programme, which supports 115 countries under the Paris Climate Agreement. She was the former advisor to the prime minister of Fiji. A graduate of Yale, she was named by Onalytica as the 13th most influential person on climate change in 2017.
Cassius Castellino is an Academics Engagement Manager and is an in-house Energy and Mobility Specialist at Swissnex in India, a Swiss government-funded initiative to promote science and innovation in India. He has a Master’s degree in Public Policy.
Cécile Biccari is a managing partner at Contrast Capital, a boutique sustainable finance consulting firm based in Zurich. She’s worked in sustainable investing for over two decades including at the sustainable investment firm RobecoSAM in Zurich, HSBC Global Asset Management in London, and WBCSD in Geneva.
From 1991 to 2006 Christoph Wiedmer worked as a campaign manager for Greenpeace Switzerland and a consultant for Greenpeace International. Since 2006 he has headed the Society for Threatened Peoples Switzerland and is a board member of the Society for Threatened Peoples International. From 2015 to 2023 he was a member of the advisory board of the Swiss National Contact Point of the OEDC.
Christopher Lockyear became Secretary General of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) International in
October 2018.
Starting with MSF in Darfur in 2005, he has subsequently held field coordination roles in Sudan,
Somalia, and Pakistan.
In 2010, he was appointed Operations Manager responsible for operations in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan, South Sudan and Uganda.
In 2014 he joined Action Against Hunger USA as Operations Director and was a Member of the UN Emergency Director’s Group.
Originally from the UK, Christopher Lockyear is a 2014 Yale World Fellow and holds an MA in Philosophy and Ethics from Exeter University, and degrees in Engineering from Cambridge University.
Claudia Vaccarone is an inclusion strategist specialized in inclusive communications and language. Trilingual in English, French, and Italian, she advises global organizations on engaging diverse audiences with clarity and respect, and empowers leaders to see how every word counts to shift culture, build belonging, and strengthen trust.
Cornelia Krug is a science policy liaison for the University of Zurich’s Research Priority Programme "Global Change and Biodiversity" and Executive Officer for the bioDISCOVERY Global Research Programme of Future Earth. Having extensively researched the impacts of land use management on animal and plant communities, she is interested in how species and ecosystems respond to environmental change (human-induced or otherwise) and how this affects human well-being. Krug lived and worked in Namibia, South Africa and France before settling in Switzerland.
Cyril Brunner is a senior climate scientist and lecturer at the Department of Environmental Systems Science at the federal institute of technology ETH Zurich. He studied mechanical engineering and received a Ph.D. in climate sciences. He is an expert on carbon dioxide removal, greenhouse gas removal, net zero, mitigation of climate change and methane emissions.
Daniel Bochsler is a Professor of Political Science at the Central European University (CEU) and the University of Belgrade. His research focuses on democracy in multicultural countries, especially in Central and Eastern Europe.
Dorothée Baumann-Pauly is an internationally renowned expert on business and human rights and a professor at the University of Geneva’s School of Economics and Management. She directs the Geneva Center for Business and Human Rights and, since 2013, also serves as the research director at the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights.
Dorothée Baumann-Pauly is the Director of the Geneva Center for Business and Human Rights at the University of Geneva and the Research Director at the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights.
Serra Cremer Iyi is a consultant at the University of Geneva Center for Business and Human Rights and the Head of Communications at Löning – Human Rights & Responsible Business.
Philip Vaughter joined the Education for Sustainable Development Programme at the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS) in June of 2015. Previously, he worked as a research fellow at York University in Canada where his work focused on analyzing the synergies and obstacles in linking local, regional, and national education policies to UN policy objectives.
Eleonora Mongelli is a human rights advocate and Vice President of the Italian Federation for Human Rights (FIDU). She is the author of the podcast Made in Slavery on the Chinese government’s violent repression of Uyghur people. Florian Irminger is President of Progress & Change Action Lab. He has served as secretary general of a national political party and in leadership positions of local and international NGOs.
Elham Manea is an associate professor at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Zurich. She is an author and a human rights activist.
Originally from Italy, Emiliano has worked as science communicator in various European countries. Now in Switzerland, he writes about scientific discoveries, especially the ones having a chemical bond, and science policy, favoring the stories that have a human touch. His main question: How is academia evolving in a changing society?
Emmanuelle David is the executive director of EPFL Space Center at the Swiss Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne. Emmanuelle has gathered more than 15 years’ experience in space transportation in academia, agency and industry from pre-development projects up to launch operations. She holds aerospace Engineering degrees both from the University of Technology of Compiegne, France, and the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany.
Gabriel Barta, Emmanuel Deonna, Wahba Ghaly and Jean-Marie Mellana
Gabriel Barta, member of the committee of the Basic Income Earth Network and treasurer of the Collective supporting undocumented migrants, member of the Social Democratic Party
Emmanuel Deonna, Geneva councilor and member of the Social Democratic Party
Wahba Ghaly, Vernier municipal councilor and member of the Social Democratic Party
Jean-Marie Mellana, member of the Trialogue Association and Social Democratic Party
Dr. Gilles Poumerol, MD, MSc is a public Health International expert. He was on the staff of WHO for 30 years working on epidemics, pandemics and International Health Regulations (IHR). He is currently associate fellow at the Centre for Security Policy in Geneva (GCSP).
Grégoire Barbey is a freelance journalist. He worked for four years at the newspaper L'Agefi and was also a columnist for La Télé. Passionate about politics, he is very active in Geneva and on social networks. He is editor-in-chief of online news blog affranchi.ch.
Guy Mettan, is a Swiss journalist and politician, member of the Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland, executive director and a founding member of the Geneva Press Club.
Prof. Dr. Gwendolyn Sasse is the Director of the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS) and Einstein Professor for the Comparative Study of Democracy and Authoritarianism at Humboldt University, Berlin.
J. Jesse Ramírez is Assistant Professor of American Studies and co-coordinator of the Technologies concentration at the University of St. Gallen. He is the author of Against Automation Mythologies: Business Science Fiction and the Ruse of the Robots, forthcoming from Routledge.
Jagan Chapagain is the secretary general of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). He has spent more than 25 years working across Europe and Asia, leading responses to large-scale humanitarian crises. He began his career as a youth volunteer at the Nepal Red Cross, advocating for and representing community voices.
James Kerry is a senior marine and climate scientist at OceanCare in Switzerland. He is also an adjunct senior research fellow at James Cook University in Australia, where he received a Ph.D. in Marine Science. He is an expert in climate change impacts, ocean science and carbon dioxide removal.
Janet Hering: Professor for Environmental Biogeochemistry at ETH Zurich, Director of the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag), and former Chairwoman of the Women Professors Forum.
Jean-Michel Rousseau is the Acting Head of DCAF’s Business and Security Division.
DCAF – Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance is dedicated to improving the security of states and their people within a framework of democratic governance, the rule of law, respect for human rights, and gender equality.
Jeff Makana is a Swiss-based labour and disability rights activist who has worked with job placement programmes across the country, including at nonprofit organisations Caritas and Espace Mozaik. He is also a correspondent for the platform Homeless Entrepreneur, for which he visits Swiss cities to understand the challenges facing the homeless community.
Jeff Rowe was appointed CEO of Syngenta Group in January 2024 where he previously served as president of Syngenta Crop Protection and Syngenta Seeds. He has a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Economics from Iowa State University, a Juris Doctorate from Drake Law School, and a Global Executive MBA from the NYU Stern School of Business and the London School of Economics.
Jennifer Victoria Scurrell is a PhD Candidate at the Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich. Her research interest focuses on human-AI interaction, AI supported influence operations, and responsible AI. Jennifer is also a member of OpenAI’s Red Teaming Network.
Milica Mirković is a research consultant for the Geneva Human Rights Platform. Her research focuses on the interaction between AI and human rights, with a particular emphasis on the responsible and ethical use of AI in the human rights field, especially in the context of human rights monitoring.
Jérôme Bellion-Jourdan is a Senior Fellow at the Zurich-based Institute for Global Negotiation where he is leading the “Global Negotiation Support” initiative to provide negotiation advice to Chairs/co-Chairs/Facilitators of United Nations and other multilateral negotiations. He served previously as a European Union diplomat to the UN and other international organisations in Geneva, after postings for various institutions in Jerusalem, Cairo, and London.
Joie Chowdhury is a Senior Attorney (Climate Litigation and Accountability) in the Climate & Energy Program at the Center for International Environmental Law.
Sébastien Duyck is a Senior Attorney in the Climate & Energy Program at the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) and the Campaign Manager for the Human Rights and Climate Change of the Climate & Energy Program.
Jörg Gasser has been CEO of the Swiss Bankers Association since 2019. Previously he was State Secretary for International Finance and has worked in other Swiss government departments and at the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Professor Jovan Kurbalija is the former executive director of the Secretariat of the UN High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation. Currently, he is the director of DiploFoundation and head of the Geneva Internet Platform.
Jürn Sanders is chairman of the management board of the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL. As an expert in the politics and economics of organic farming, he has been advising the EU Commission and various national and regional governments on their agricultural and food policies since 2007.
Adrian Müller is a research associate at the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL in the department of agricultural and food systems. Since 2009, he has been working on issues relating to climate protection in agriculture, sustainable consumption and the transformation of our food systems.
Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch from 1993 to 2022, is a visiting professor at Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs. His new book is Righting Wrongs: Three Decades on the Front Lines Battling Abusive Governments.
Kevin Kohler is a security analyst at the Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich, where he works on digital technologies and risk management.
Nicolas Zahn is a Project Manager at the Swiss Digital Initiative and works at the intersection of foreign policy and technology.
Laurent Goetschel is Director of the Swiss Peace Foundation swisspeace and Professor of Political Science at the University of Basel. Among other things, he was a personal assistant to Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey.
Leandra Bias is a political scientist who has just submitted her dissertation on feminist critique in authoritarian regimes at Oxford University. She works as a gender expert at the Swiss Peace Foundation (swisspeace).
Lucas Schneeberger is Education Officer at the Erasmus Student Network (ESN) Switzerland, which helps exchange students in Switzerland, as well as promotes student mobility. He is a board member of the Swiss National Youth Council, responsible for international politics. He graduated from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in 2020 and undertook a year-long exchange in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2016. He now works as an engineer in the energy sector.
Lucie Wuethrich is the Swiss-based member on the Environmental Paper Network's Biomass Working Group, and a volunteer for the Partnership For Policy Integrity.
Marcela Vieira coordinates the Knowledge Network for Innovation and Access to Medicines at the Global Health Centre, Graduate Institute Geneva. She has a background in law and social sciences and has worked on access to medicines and IP issues with international organisations. Adrián Alonso Ruiz is a researcher with a background in pharmacy and the project manager of the New Business Models for Governing Innovation and Global Access to Medicines at the Global Health Centre.
Mario Leandros Huber studied mathematics, social science and economics and has worked for the Swiss government and NGOs. He started the initiative BanPrivateJets.org aimed at discussing how to curtail flying in a socially acceptable way.
Markus Häfliger, German-speaking editorial team, Tamedia
Markus Häfliger is the Tages-Anzeiger's parliamentary correspondent. He studied International Relations in Geneva. Häfliger was voted Swiss Journalist of the Year in 2015.
Max Borg writes about cinema and television in English, French and Italian, for outlets such as Il Corriere del Ticino and Clap.ch (Switzerland), Movieplayer.it and Cinecittà News (Italy), and Crooked Marquee (USA). You can follow him on Twitter (@IMDBorg), Instagram (@max_cinefilo89) and Letterboxd (MaxBorg89).
Nadya Wells is senior research adviser at the Global Health Centre of the Graduate Institute Geneva. She is an independent non-executive director in the financial sector, and a former institutional investor with 20 years investment experience as a portfolio manager in large, global asset-management firms.
Nataša Mišković is a historian of Southeast Europe specialising in non-aligned states and visual history. She teaches and researches at the University of Bern.
Neda Amani holds a degree in History and Political Science from the University of Bern and is recognized as an expert in Iranian human rights issues. She actively engages in advocacy work as a member of the Women's Network for Change at both the EU and UN levels.
Olivier Tschopp has been the director of the national agency Movetia (promoting exchange, mobility and cooperation in the Swiss education system) since January 2017. Before joining Movetia, Olivier was a teacher, school director and then responsible for the upper secondary and tertiary level for the department of education for canton Jura.
Paula Dupraz-Dobias is an award-winning Geneva-based journalist covering environment, business, international organizations, humanitarian crises and Latin America.
Pierre Brisson is the president and founding member of the Mars Society Switzerland. He is also a member of the management committee of the Planète Mars Association (France). An economist by training (University of Virginia, USA), he is a former corporate banker and a lifelong planetologist.
Rona Bolliger studied political science at the University of Zurich, where she specialised in Swiss politics, policy analysis and family/gender policies.
Rudolph Thomson is the founder and managing director of VaudRisk, a risk management consulting company with focus areas in early warning & problem recognition, and remedial management. VaudRisk is registered and based in Montreux, Vaud, Switzerland.
Saon Ray is an economist specialising in industry and international trade. She is visiting Professor at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations ICRIER.
Simon Trüb is an independent researcher in Continental Philosophy and English Literature. He obtained a PhD in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh and held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the English Department of the University of Freiburg, Germany.
Lionel Fatton is Assistant Professor and Program Head of the BA in International Relations at Webster Geneva Campus and Research Collaborator at the Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer, Meiji University. His research interest lies in security dynamics in the Indo-Pacific, China-Japan-US-Taiwan relations, Japan and China’s foreign security policies and Neoclassical realism.
Simona Grano is currently Head of the Research Area China-Taiwan Relations and Senior Lecturer at the University of Zurich. Simona's regional expertise centers on the People's Republic of China as well as on Taiwan and Hong Kong. She regularly contributes to Swiss and global media through articles, commentaries and interviews.
Prof. Sonia I. Seneviratne's research focuses on climate extremes and land-climate interactions. She investigates processes leading to droughts and heatwaves, the impact of land processes and land cover changes on regional climate, and their changes with global warming. She combines climate model experiments and statistical data analysis in her research, based on model data, ground observations and satellite measurements.
Stephen Herzog is a senior researcher in nuclear arms control at the Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich. He is also co-chair of the Beyond Nuclear Deterrence Working Group at the Harvard University Project on Managing the Atom.
Susan M. Gasser is Director emeritus and group leader at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) and Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of Basel.
She is a member of the Swiss Science Council, a consultative body to the Swiss government.
Sylvia Ekström has been a doctor in astrophysics since 2008, specialising in stellar physics. She is responsible for communications at the Department of Astronomy at the University of Geneva.
Javier G. Nombela is a graphic designer specialising in the visual representation of time. He is also the author of numerous popular works in the field of astronomy.
Thomas Cueni is Director General of IFPMA, the global association of pharmaceutical research companies, based in Geneva. Prior to joining IFPMA he was Secretary General of Interpharma, the association of pharmaceutical research companies in Switzerland.
Ambassador Thomas Greminger is a Swiss diplomat and the current director of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP). He was secretary general of the OSCE from 2017 to 2020.
Thomas Hurter is a Swiss People’s Party member of parliament, a former military and airline pilot and president of Aerosuisse, the umbrella organisation for Swiss air and space travel.
Timothy Fish Hodgson is legal adviser on economic, social, and cultural rights at the International Commission of Jurists. Sara L.M. Davis is senior researcher at the Global Health Centre, Graduate Institute Geneva, and principal investigator of the Digital Health and Rights Project. Her latest book is The Uncounted: Politics of Data in Global Health (Cambridge University Press, 2020).
Tooba Neda Safi is an Afghan-born journalist and women rights activist living in Switzerland. She mainly writes on Afghanistan, especially on the conditions of women under the Taliban. Her writing has appeared in Geneva Solutions among others.
Valter Sanches is the general secretary of IndustriALL Global Union. IndustriALL is one of five global unions based in the Geneva area, and represents 50 million workers in the manufacturing, mining and energy sectors worldwide
Health and data journalist.
I cover a wide range of healthcare topics, from cutting-edge therapies to global health. My stories are often data-driven, and I strive to make complex issues clear and accessible. Before becoming a full-time journalist, I worked in communication, research, and data analysis for the UN and EU. In the private sector, I developed health economics models to inform policy and investment decisions. Originally from Italy, I am now based in Zurich.
Yves Flückiger is president of swissuniversities, the umbrella organisation of Swiss Universities. He also serves as Rector of the University of Geneva and is a professor of economics.
