Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator

GESDA Summit Speakers

PHILIPPE AGHION
Professor, College de France, INSEAD and London School of Economics
EWAN BIRNEY
Deputy Director General, EMBL; Director, EMBL-EBI
MAURICE BORGEAUD
Head, Department Science, Applications and Climate, European Space Agency
LIDIA BRITO
Director, UNESCO’s Regional Bureau for Sciences, Latin America and the Caribbean
IGNAZIO CASSIS
Vice-President, Swiss Federal Council; Head, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
CHORH CHUAN TAN
Chief Health Scientist, Republic of Singapore; Board Member, GESDA
SEAN CLEARY
Executive Vice-Chair, FutureWorld Foundation
NEIL DAVIES
Director, University of California’s Gump South Pacific Research Station on Moorea (French Polynesia)
YVONNE DONDERS
Head, Department of International and European Public Law; Commissioner, Netherlands Human Rights Institute, University of Amsterdam
JOSEPH D'CRUZ
Special Advisor, Strategic Planning & Innovation, United Nations Development Programme
MOMAR DIENG
Chief Strategy and Partnerships Officer, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences
MATTHIAS EGGER
President, National Research Council, Swiss National Science Foundation
ALEXANDRE FASEL
Ambassador, Special Representative for Science Diplomacy in Geneva
YVES FLÜCKIGER
Rector, University Geneva; President, Campus Biotech Geneva Foundation
NATHALIE FONTANET
State Councillor of the Republic and Canton of Geneva; Representative, GESDA Co-Founders, Switzerland
GERALD HAUG
President, German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
NIKLAS HEDMAN
Chief of Committee, Policy and Legal Affairs Section, UNOOSA
DIRK HELBING
Professor of Computational Social Science, ETH Zurich
ANDRÉ HOFFMANN
Businessman, Environmentalist and Philanthropist, Vice-Chairman, Hoffmann-La Roche
MARCELLO IENCA
Senior Research Fellow, Health Ethics & Policy Unit, ETH Zurich
JUDY ILLES
Professor of neurology, University of British Columbia
KARIN JESTIN
Strategic Philanthropy Advisor, Philanthropic & Humanitarian Initiatives
SAMI KANAAN
President, Geneva Cities Hub; President, Swiss Youth Commission
ELHAM KASHEFI
Professor of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh
BRIAN KENNEDY
Distinguished Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore
SAMIRA KIANI
CEO and Founder, GenexGen; Director, Tomorrow Life Initiative
JÜRG LAUBER
Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the United Nations and to the other international organisations in Geneva
ENRICO LETTA
Secretary, Italian Democratic Party; President, Jacques Delors Institute
MATHIAS LINK
Director, European Space Resources Innovation Centre
KATHERINE LITTLER
Co-Lead, Global Health Ethics & Governance Unit, World Health Organization
TANJA MASSON-ZWAAN
Assistant Professor and Deputy Director, International Institute of Air and Space Law
PETER MAURER
President, International Committee of the Red Cross
ANDERS MEIBOM
Professor, Laboratory for Biological Geochemistry, EPFL
SU MENG
Founder, Origin Space Corporation
JOËL MESOT
President, ETH Zurich; Co-Chair, GESDA Academic Forum
PATRICK MICHEL
Senior Researcher, The French National Centre for Scientific Research
MAMI MIZUTORI
Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction; Head of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
SERGIO MUJICA
Secretary-General, International Organization for Standardization
GEOFF MULGAN
Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation, University College London
ALONDRA NELSON
Deputy Director, Science and Society, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
SIMON NIEMEYER
Director, Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance, University of Canberra
NALEDI PANDOR
Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, South African Government
JANOS PASZTOR
Executive Director, Carnegie Climate Governance Initiative C2G
DIDIER QUELOZ
Professor of Astronomy, Cambridge University and ETH Zurich; 2019 Nobel Prize for Physics
VLADIMIR RYABININ
Executive Secretary, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, UNESCO
GUY RYDER
Director-General, International Labour Organization
ATSUSHI SEIKE
Executive Advisor, Academic Affairs, Keio Research Information Systems
NIKHIL SETH
United Nations Assistant Secretary-General, Executive Director, UNITAR
MARIA-FRANCESCA SPATOLISANO
Assistant Secretary-General, Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs, Department of Economic and Social Affairs
DAREN TANG
Director General, World Intellectual Property Organization
AMBROISE WONKAM
Professor and Senior Medical Genetics Consultant, University of Cape Town