Governance
& Team

Board of Directors

Peter Brabeck-Letmathe

Chairman of the Board of Directors

Patrick Aebischer

Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors

Micheline Calmy-Rey

Former President of the Swiss Confederation, Visiting Professor at the University of Geneva (since May 2012)

Stéphane Decoutère

Member and Secretary General of the Board of Directors

Henrietta H. Fore

Chairman/CEO at Holsman International, Chair of GESDA’s Citizen Forum

Urs Gasser

Dean TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology

Michael Hengartner

President of ETH Board; Chair of GESDA’s Academic Forum

Enrico Letta

Dean to IE School of Politics, Economics and Global Affairs; Chair of GESDA’s Diplomacy Forum

Lindiwe Majele Sibanda

Director and Chairwoman, African Research Universities Alliance Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Food Systems (ARUA-SFS)

Michael Møller

Former Director-General UN at Geneva

John-Arne Røttingen

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Wellcome Trust

Anton Rupert

Non-executiveDirector at Richemont

Eng Chye Tan

Professor and President of the National University of Singapore (NUS)

Magdalena Skipper

Editor-in-Chief of Nature

The Chairs of the Fora

The Team

Marilyne Andersen

Director General

Esther Cappelli

Communications and Digital Content Manager

Jean-Marc Crevoisier

Director Communication and Media

Federica Du Pasquier

Program Lead, Future of Peace and War

Gérard Escher

Claudia Freymond

Project Manager, Anticipation Observatory

Florent Gaillard

Program Manager, Anticipation Observatory

Sophie Gilbert

Program Lead, GESDA Science Breakthrough Radar

Sandro Giuliani

Senior Advisor to the Board

Marga Gual Soler

Head of Science Diplomacy Capacity Building

Alice Hazelton

Director Events and Communications

Marieke Hood

Executive Director Impact Translator

Manuel Gustavo Isaac

Program Manager, Villars 2025

Greta Keenan

Catherine Lefebvre

Senior Advisor, Open Quantum Institute

Laurent Mentek

Marion Mercier

Program Manager, Radar High Level Review

Marie Sophie Müller

Program Lead, Solution Accelerator

Martin Müller

Executive Director Science Anticipator

Maricela Muñoz

Director, External Affairs

Niniane Paeffgen

Program Lead, Public Portal to Anticipation

Monika Plozza

Advisor for the Human Rights to Science

Daria Robinson

Executive Director Solution Accelerator

Miquel Sanagustin Llousas

Board Manager and Executive Assistant

Marianne T. Schörling

Program Manager, the Open Quantum Institute

Agota Seguin

Director of Operations