Thank you for your interest in our guest speaker series. Currently, we don't have any upcoming speakers planned. However, we're constantly working on bringing new and exciting voices to our platform.
Please stay tuned for updates, and feel free to explore our past speaker events for inspiration and insights.
Past speakers
- TEDxIntl School of Geneva
Unlock the potential of collaborative thought and embrace the power of "Outside Intelligence" as our La Grande Boissière students inspire, provoke, and share their extraordinary visions.
- Swati Thiyagarajan
Swati Thiyagarajan is an Indian conservationist, documentary filmmaker and environmental journalist, based in Cape Town, South Africa and New Delhi, India. She is a core team member of the Sea Change Project in South Africa and environmental editor at the Indian television news network of NDTV.Thiyagarajan is the recipient of the Carl Zeiss Award, Earth Heroes Award and two Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards. Her work as the environmental editor at NDTV has been acclaimed internationally and she has been described as the doyenne of environmental journalism in India.
- Valentine Cuny-Le Callet
Author and illustrator, Cuny-Le Callet won the award "Prix BD Fnac France Inter 2023".She is a graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris. She is currently working on a thesis in visual arts and contemporary creation at the Université Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne. The subject of her thesis is "Témoigner et résister dans le couloir de la mort : contraintes, censure et Do It Yourself".
She is particularly interested in the practice of visual arts by prisoners on death row in the United States.
- Anne-Frédérique Widmann
Anne-Frédérique Widmann is a Swiss investigative journalist, director and producer. Her full length documentary film Free Men, depicting the story of Arkansas death row inmate Kenneth Reams and his struggle for justice, was released in theatres in 2018. The film won four awards in international festivals, including the special jury prize at the Festival International du Cinema d'Alger (FICA) 2018.
Widmann works for the Swiss TV magazines Mise au Point and Temps Présent. She won the journalism award Prix Dumur 2019 for her entire career and is married to the Swiss cartoonist Patrick Chappatte.
- Karelle Ménine
Karelle Ménine is a Franco-Swiss artist. In 2006 she was involved in the campaign against prison overcrowding led by Bernard Bolze. She edited the book "9m2", inviting personalities such as Raymond Depardon, Florence Aubenas, Cabu, Honoré, Nancy Huston and Marie Desplechin to express their views on the issue of respect for the numerus clausus. For these works, she was awarded the Prix de la Fondation Pittard-de-l'Andelyn 2023.
- Pierre Hazan and David Pratt
Conversation between Pierre Hazan, international mediator in armed conflicts and David Pratt, journalist known for his war reporting and photography.
Pierre Hazan is a senior advisor with the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, one of the main organizations in armed conflict mediation. He has advised international organizations, governments and armed groups on questions related to justice, amnesty, reparation, truth commission, forced disappearances, international humanitarian law, and human rights. In March 2022, Pierre became a Richard von Weizsäcker fellow at the Robert-Bosch Foundation in Berlin.
He has worked with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and collaborated with the United Nations in the Balkans. He was a member of the International Contact Group on the Basque Conflict, which co-organized in 2011 the Peace Conference that led to the end of political violence in the Basque country. He has worked in many conflict zones in Africa, the Balkans, the Middle East, and in Europe. Since November 2021 and to December 2022, Pierre Hazan was also a Commissioner of the French Independent Commission on Reparation and Reconciliation for sexual abuses committed by members of Catholic congregations.
David Pratt is a Scottish author, filmmaker, photographer, and journalist who has been named Scottish Journalist of the Year, Reporter of the Year, and Feature Writer of the Year. Pratt is known for his war reporting and photography, which was featured in the 2020 documentary Pictures from Afghanistan and the 2022 documentary Pictures from Iraq. He is the author of Intifada – The Long Day of Rage.
- Michel Bauden
"Testimony of resistance during the 2nd World War, tribute to René Bauden and the Compagnons de la Libération".Michel Bauden is the son of René Bauden, a Compagnon de la Libération appointed in 1944. Since August 2022, Michel has been the departmental delegate for the Association des Familles de Compagnons de la Libération, whose aim is to preserve the memory of the 1038 Companions of the Liberation designated by General de Gaulle for their commitment since 1940 and who, on several occasions, worked for the liberation of France. He is also deputy delegate for Haute Savoie for the Fondation de la France Libre. This foundation keeps alive the memory of those few Frenchmen who enlisted between June 1940 and July 1943 in the army created by General de Gaulle after the Appeal of 18 June 1940". Conference in French.
- Eileen Hofer and Christopher, with Christa Roth
The authors of the best-selling graphic novel "Audrey Hepburn" will speak about this epic figure of the 20th century.Genevan scriptwriter Eileen Hofer and cartoonist Christopher pay a moving tribute to Audrey Hepburn in this illustrated biography, which includes an unpublished interview with the actress's youngest son, Luca Dotti.
Christa Roth talked about Audrey Hepburn's role as UNICEF ambassador for children's rights.